Hi Ray,
I still don't understand your usage of the word
"default" here. I get the part about you wanting to pass through
role attributes as class values on your titles. But those role values are
to be entered by the author, and are not default values. In the case of
DocBook's HTML output, the default class values are added by the XSL
stylesheet:
<div class="chapter"><div
class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title">
One can write CSS selectors to match on these
default class values. It looks like you are
looking to override the default class values with other values using the role
attribute. Is that because you want the authors to be able to assign
different styles to different chapter titles? Your example only showed one
style, so I wasn't sure if that's what you intended.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
----- Original Message -----
From:
Miller, Ray
(Centech)
To:
Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2006 9:19
AM
Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] Assigning
Default Role Values to Elements
>>
I understand that you want to
propagate role values to class attributes in the HTML, but I'm not clear on
what you mean by assigning default role values to elements. That is
usually a function of the DTD. Can you give an example of what you
mean?
<<
Given the enterprise
CSS class selectors:
--------------------------------------------------
.foo-section-header
{
padding: 3px;
background-color: #6B1424;
color: #FFFFFF;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 115%;
}
.foo-paragraph-header
{
font-weight: bold;
color: #6B1424;
}
.foo-emphasis
{
font-style: italic;
}
.foo-bold
{
font-weight: bold;
}
------------------------------------------------
the following DocBook
element roles would be applied:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<chapter><phrase
role=”foo-section-header”>Foo</phrase></chapter>
<sect1><phrase
role=”foo-paragraph-header”>Foo</phrase></sect1>
<sect2><phrase
role=”foo-paragraph-header”>Foo</phrase></sect2>
<sect3><phrase
role=”foo-paragraph-header”>Foo</phrase></sect3>
<sect4><phrase
role=”foo-paragraph-header”>Foo</phrase></sect4>
<sect5><phrase
role=”foo-paragraph-header”>Foo</phrase></sect5>
<emphasis
role=”foo-emphasis”>foo</emphasis>
<emphasis
role=”foo-bold”>foo</emphasis>
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
What I overlooked is
that propagates.style is not supported in
chapter or section titles.
So the question
regarding default roles would apply to elements of which propagates.style is supported in the
stylesheets.
Would
chapter-title.propagates.style and
section-title.propagates.style be considered a
viable feature request in forthcoming stylesheet
releases?
As most other common
DocBook elements support propagates.style, the aforementioned
request combined with default element role inclusions and values would result
in integrated presentation-layer conformance; the holy grail of content
publishing ‘round here.
Ray
