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Re: [docbook-apps] customizing the class attribute for sections and olinks

  • 1.  Re: [docbook-apps] customizing the class attribute for sections and olinks

    Posted 03-19-2010 04:09
    Hi Dave,
    I think you are mistaking 'css.decoration' for some other parameter. If css.decoration
    is set 1, then a few elements will have a style attribute added to them, but it isn't
    a general mechanism.

    The stylesheet by default passes the element name through to the class value. That
    works ok, but it wasn't very flexible, so starting with version 1.72 the stylesheets
    added a hook for generating your own class values, with the element name as the
    fallback. For details see:

    http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/HtmlCustomEx.html#CustomClassValues

    With custom class values, you can do a lot more with CSS.

    Bob Stayton
    Sagehill Enterprises
    bobs@sagehill.net





  • 2.  Re: [docbook-apps] customizing the class attribute for sections and olinks

    Posted 03-19-2010 08:04
    On 19/03/10 04:09, Bob Stayton wrote:
    > Hi Dave,
    > I think you are mistaking 'css.decoration' for some other parameter. If
    > css.decoration is set 1, then a few elements will have a style attribute
    > added to them, but it isn't a general mechanism.
    >
    > The stylesheet by default passes the element name through to the class
    > value. That works ok, but it wasn't very flexible,

    Sorry, that's what I was thinking of. I thought it needed triggering
    by the CSS decoration param.


    so starting with
    > version 1.72 the stylesheets added a hook for generating your own class
    > values, with the element name as the fallback. For details see:
    >
    > http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/HtmlCustomEx.html#CustomClassValues
    Thanks, I'll take a look. I'm looking forward to Robin Berjons paper
    presented at xmlprague, where he 'decorated' his docbook paper with
    CSS and showed it via the browser! Looked quite good.

    >
    > With custom class values, you can do a lot more with CSS.


    The OP mailed me off list saying he wanted to decorate only one
    div from many produced. I advised using CSS for that, not XSLT.



    regards

    --
    Dave Pawson
    XSLT XSL-FO FAQ.
    http://www.dpawson.co.uk



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