Re: [docbook-apps] Consistent libxslt error

This is a very diplomatic way of goosing me to buy and read the book -- now scooted up to "can I find a copy in Tallahassee today to drag with me to next week's conference so I can sit in the back of the room and read." thank you. And thanks to Bob Stayton for his slides, which a documentation intern with our project also found extremely helpful.

Buying! Reading! Now! 

Karen

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Keith Fahlgren <> wrote:

Hi Karen,

The messages you see are described in Bob Stayton's DocBook XSL: The

Complete Guide, here:

http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Db5Tools.html#ConvertToDb5

"""

Using DocBook 4 stylesheets with DocBook 5

The original DocBook XSL stylesheets written for Docbook 4 documents

would not normally work with DocBook 5 documents. That's because a

pattern match in an XSL template must match on any namespace as well

as the local name of an element. When you process a DocBook 5 document

with the original stylesheets, none of the pattern matching templates

include the DocBook 5 namespace, so none of the templates will match

any elements in the document.

The stylesheets work around this problem with a simple mechanism. If

the stylesheet detects a document whose root element is in the DocBook

5 namespace, it first copies the entire document into a variable while

stripping out the namespace from all the elements. The stylesheet then

converts the variable into a node set, and applies templates to the

node set normally. Because the elements in the node set are no longer

in the DocBook 5 namespace, its elements will match the patterns in

the original stylesheets. All this takes place automatically before

the actual processing starts.

The result is that you can process DocBook 5 documents with the same

commands as for DocBook 4 documents. You will see these messages

indicating what is going on:

Stripping namespace from DocBook 5 document.

Processing stripped document.

"""

Regards,

Keith

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