Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: [patch] fo:marker fix

[Bob Stayton <bobs@caldera.com>]

On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 08:31:20AM +0100, Tim Waugh wrote:
> I needed this patch to get passivetex (1.21) to accept the output from
> the XSL stylesheets.  Is it correct, or a hack?
> 
> Thanks,
> Tim.
> */
> 
> --- docbook-xsl-1.56.1/fo/sections.xsl.marker	2002-10-16 16:24:19.000000000 +0100
> +++ docbook-xsl-1.56.1/fo/sections.xsl	2002-10-16 16:24:20.000000000 +0100
> @@ -358,7 +358,7 @@
>  
>    <fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="section.title.properties">
>      <fo:marker marker-class-name="section.head.marker">
> -      <xsl:copy-of select="$title"/>
> +      <xsl:value-of select="$title"/>
>      </fo:marker>
>      <xsl:choose>
>        <xsl:when test="$level=1">

Well, it is a bit of a hack.  The $title variable contains
a temporary result tree of the title with templates
applied, which could include any <fo:inline> markup for
italics, superscript, etc.  The difference is that
xsl:value-of gives you just the text, while xsl:copy-of
will give you text with inline formatting.

The <fo:marker> is used for running heads, and I doubt if
people in general would want to lose the inline markup when
the title is rendered in the running head.  Apparently
PassiveTeX has a problem with the inline markup within an
fo:marker.  I would consider that a PassiveTeX bug,
and so wouldn't apply the patch to the source.

But you gotta do what you gotta do to get output, right?

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