Re: [docbook-apps] Dealing with relative CSS files in chunked output

Hi,
I discovered this same problem when I started working on generating a CSS 
file and creating the links to it.  I was also surprised it had not come up 
before.  I'm planning to fix it in the next release.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Millar" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 7:37 AM
Subject: [docbook-apps] Dealing with relative CSS files in chunked output


> [apologies if this is the wrong mailing list]
>
> Hi all,
>
> I noticed an issue with chunked web output and CSS.  I'm using v1.75.2 of 
> the
> style-sheets (the Debian package is docbook-xsl 1.75.2+dfsg-3).
>
> The issue is that, if the CSS file-name is relative and some of the 
> chunked
> output goes into subdirectories then the generated HTML has a broken link 
> to
> the CSS file.  This is because it doesn't take into account that one (or 
> more)
> "../" prefixes are needed.  I searched around but this didn't seem to be a
> known issue, which surprises me.
>
> I've included a rather ugly work-around below that customises the
> output.html.stylesheets template.  It is roughly based on the href.target 
> in
> html/chunk-common.xsl.  This work-around doesn't provide support for 
> multiple
> CSS files and absolute URIs (which is OK for my use), but might be
> insufficient for others.  I include it here in case it's useful for 
> someone.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul.
>
> ---
>
>  <!-- Work-around issue with chunking and having a relative CSS 
> filename -->
>  <xsl:template name="output.html.stylesheets">
>    <xsl:variable name="depth">
>      <xsl:call-template name="count.uri.path.depth">
> <xsl:with-param name="filename">
>   <xsl:call-template name="href.target.uri">
>     <xsl:with-param name="object" select="."/>
>   </xsl:call-template>
> </xsl:with-param>
>      </xsl:call-template>
>    </xsl:variable>
>
>    <xsl:variable name="href">
>      <xsl:call-template name="copy-string">
> <xsl:with-param name="string" select="'../'"/>
> <xsl:with-param name="count" select="$depth"/>
>      </xsl:call-template>
>      <xsl:value-of select="$html.stylesheet"/>
>    </xsl:variable>
>
>    <link rel="stylesheet" href="{$href}">
>      <xsl:if test="$html.stylesheet.type != ''">
> <xsl:attribute name="type">
>   <xsl:value-of select="$html.stylesheet.type"/>
> </xsl:attribute>
>      </xsl:if>
>    </link>
>  </xsl:template>
>
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