Hi Rob,
First of all, thanks a lot for your quick response!
I think you misunderstood me, and it's my fault. I'll try to provide more details about my "design":
what i tried to do is to minimize the amount of tags you need to type in, to create a table.
So, I defined a kind of a macro, that builds the table's look and feel, headings, etc.
<xsl:template match="jstatuscodestable">
<xsl:variable name="e1">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="e2">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:element name="table">
<xsl:attribute name="frame">
<xsl:value-of select="'all'"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="id">
<xsl:value-of
select="@id"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<title><xsl:value-of select="@t"/></title>
<tgroup cols="2">
<colspec colnum="1" colname="col1" colwidth="*"/>
<colspec colnum="2" colname="col2" colwidth="1.5*"/>
<thead>
<row>
...
</row>
</thead>
<tbody>
<xsl:for-each select="row">
<row>
<xsl:if test="$e1">
<entry>
<xsl:value-of select="@e1"/>
<xsl:if test="contains('xref')">
<xref>
<xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
<xsl:attribute name="linkend">
<xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
<xsl:value-of select="<extracted_text>"/>
</xsl:attribute>
</xref>
</xsl:if>-->
</entry>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="$e2">
<entry>
<xsl:value-of select="@e2"/>
</entry>
</xsl:if>
</row>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:for-each>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
So, to add such a table, I only need to enter:
<jstatuscodestable>
<row e1="blue" e2="red">
<row e1="black" e2="yellow">
...
</jstatuscodestable>
instead of entering dozens of table elements each time.
But then, I discovered that I can't add an <xref> within an entry.
I can't
write:
<row e1="blue (refer to <xref
linkend="sect_test"/>)" e2="red"/>
So I wonder, if somehow a piece of text within e1's value (e.x. sect_test) can be extracted and passed as a value for linkend I added (as an example) in the first <entry> tag in the template above. Of course, I would like to be able to add an xref in any entry within the table.
I hope this time, my explanation is clearer :-)
Thanks a lot in advance!
Best wishes,
Nancy
--- On Tue, 10/20/09, <> wrote:
From: <>
Subject: [docbook-apps] RE: A tricky xref problem
To: ,
Cc:
Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 8:20 AM
Your example is confusing, because in standard DocBook,
<row> does not have "entry" attributes, only <entry> child
elements.
But assuming you know that and this is really what you
want, it sounds like you are saying that you want to use the concatenated values
of the other attributes as the link ID. I think that you would do that not by
dynamically adding a "linkend" attribute, but by modifying the "xref" template
so that it retrieves the values of those other attributes
directly; something like this:
<xsl:variable name="linkID" select="@linkend"
/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="id( $linkID
)">
<xsl:call-template name="createURI">
<xsl:with-param name="element" select="id( $linkID )"
/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:call-template name="createURI">
<xsl:with-param name="element" select="*[concat(@entry1, @entry2, @entry3) =
$linkID]" />
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
You would have to make the entry text
retrieval match the exact pattern you want, but that's generally how I'd
approach it.
From: Nancy Brandt
[mailto:]
Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 5:30
AM
To:
Cc:
Subject: A tricky xref
problem
Hi all,
I wonder if there is a way to extract a
text string and pass it as a value for the <xref linkend=""/>
expression. For example, when I write:
Some text
text text (see ref=[sect_test]),
I would like
to take the text within the [ ] delimiters and pass it as a value for
the linkend attribute of the xref element called in my customized table
template. The reason for this special workaround is that I've
created a custom template that enables you to add a table row with its
entries using one command, like
so:
<table>
...
<row entry1="red" entry2="blue"
entry3="black"/> -which saves a lot of typing.
So, if I wish
to add a reference to some section from within entry1, I can't
write:
<row entry1="red (refer to <xref
linkend="sect_test"/>)" entry2="blue" entry3="black"/>
I
need somehow to customize my table template that says something
like:
...
<xsl:for-each select="row">
<row>
<xsl:if
test="$entry1">
<entry>
<xsl:value-of
select="@entry1"/>
<xsl:if
test="contains('xref')">
<xref>
<xsl:copy-of
select="@*"/>
<xsl:attribute
name="linkend">
<xsl:copy-of
select="@*"/>
<xsl:value-of
select="<extracted_text_string>"/>
</xsl:attribute>
</xref>
</xsl:if>
</entry>
</xsl:if>
...
</row>
</xsl:for-each>
...
Please,
advise me how to extract the text string from within [ ] delimiters to
pass it as a value for the <xref> expression.
Thanks a lot
in advance!!!
Best
wishes,
Nancy
