Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Cover Art

[Bob Stayton <bobs@caldera.com>]

> From: Michael Cortez <mcortez@fullcoll.edu>
> 
> I am having difficulty in getting Cover Art to show up on documents rendered
> via XSL for HTML or PDF...
> 
> I took a look at the source XML for "DocBook: The Definitive Guide" and saw
> that the title image was placed in the <BookInfo> section -- that is where I
> added mine.  
> 
> But, it doesn't show up in the resulting HTML or PDF documents 8-(

Looking at the titlepage templates in XSL 1.42, it
appears there is no template for mediaobject or graphic.
So you aren't doing anything wrong, it just doesn't
work yet.

I recommend you file that omission as a bug in sourceforge.
Of course, it isn't immediately clear to me where such
a graphic would appear, relative to title, author, etc.
Different people may want it in different places.
Perhaps it was not included because that is a designer
issue that requires customization.  It could be
handled with a parameter that specifies which element
it should appear before, something like:

<xsl:param name="place.bookinfo.graphic.before"
	select="'title'"/>

or some such.

bobs
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