Re: [docbook-apps] Adding author name to TOC

Hi Jason,

You will want to copy the template named 'toc.line' 
from html/autotoc.xsl to your customization layer and modify it to add 
author.  This line of XSL generates the title:

 

        
<xsl:apply-templates select="." 
mode="titleabbrev.markup"/>

The context node for that template is the element 
for that line in a TOC (chapter, section, etc.).  So you would want to add 
an xsl:if statement after the title to include the author, something like this 
for DocBook 5 (remove the d: namespace prefix if DocBook 4):

 

<xsl:if test="(self::d:chapter or 
self::d:article) and d:info/d:author">

  <xsl:text> 
</xsl:text>

  <span class="tocauthor">

    <xsl:variable 
name="author">

      
<xsl:apply-templates select="d:info/d:author[1]" 
mode="titlepage.mode"/>

    
</xsl:variable>

    <xsl:value-of 
select="$author"/>

  </span>

</xsl:if>

 

The $author variable is used to strip any 
formatting that would be applied by titlepage.mode using xsl:value-of, which 
returns only text.

 

You can add a CSS selector matching on class 
'tocauthor' to format the author name in the TOC.

 

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises


 

 

  
----- Original Message ----- 

  
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  Jason 
  Zech 

  
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Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 9:20 
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Subject: [docbook-apps] Adding author 
  name to TOC

  

  

  
Hi,

  
 

  
Is there a relatively simple way to customize the TOC 
  generation so that the author name is included with the chapter/article title 
  in the TOC for HTML output? I am working a on book of pieces by dozens of 
  authors and would like to include the author names in the TOC without having 
  to manually generate the TOC (if possible).

  
 

  
Thanks,

  
 

  
 

  
Jason 
  Zech | 
  Project Manager, Digital Workflow | New Product Development 
[ph] 
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