Hello David,
Thank you very much for your prompt and informative reply.
I changed the template definition to exclude footnote parents, as you
suggested -- <xsl:template match="para[not(parent::footnote)]"> -- and it
worked like a charm[?].
Thank you also for the information regarding the mailing lists.
Sharon
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Cramer, David W (David) <
dcramer@motive.com> wrote:
> Hi Sharon,
>
> I had the very same problem long ago and was helped by Bob Stayton on the
> docbook-apps mailing list:
>
>
>
> “This is one of the gotchas of XSL import precedence. This template in
> fo/footnote.xsl:
>
>
>
> <xsl:template match="footnote/para[1]
>
> |footnote/simpara[1]
>
> |footnote/formalpara[1]"
>
> priority="2">
>
>
>
> which generates the superscript in the para fo:block is being overridden by
> your customization of para. A template match with a higher import
> precedence will always be used before a template of lower import precedence,
> even if that has a better match and higher priority. So you need to copy
> this template to your customization layer to raise its import precedence, or
> change your match attribute in your customization to exclude footnote
> parents:
>
>
>
> match="para[not(parent::footnote)]"
>
>
>
> So you’ll want to change:
>
>
>
> <xsl:template match="para">
>
>
>
> To
>
>
>
> <xsl:template match="para[not(parent::footnote)]">
>
>
>
> And all should be well.
>
>
>
> Btw., I’ve replied to the docbook-apps list. The docbook list is for
> questions about what markup to use and the DocBook schema while docbook-apps
> is for questions about the stylesheets and other matters of DocBook
> processing. I’m getting a blank page for that oasis list guidelines page as
> well. No idea what’s up with that.
>
>
>
> David
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* Sharon Lifshitz [mailto:
sharon.l.mail@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Sunday, August 22, 2010 6:06 AM
> *To:*
docbook@lists.oasis-open.org> *Subject:* [docbook] para customization affects footnote numbers
>
>
>
> Hello,
>
> After redefining the para template from nwalsh/fo/block.xsl, in order to
> support and additional attribute, I noticed that this affected the usage of
> para within footnote tags -- the footnote number in the print (PDF) output
> no longer appeared in the footnotes section (i.e., the footnote appeared
> without its number); the number did appear in the footnote reference within
> the text.
>
> For test purposes, I tried copying the original para template definition,
> as-is, into my print style sheet, and the result was the same.
> (None of the footnote formatting parameters are set in my style sheets --
> i.e., I'm using the default formatting.)
>
> The copied para template:
> ====================
> <xsl:template match="para">
> <xsl:variable name="keep.together">
> <xsl:call-template name="pi.dbfo_keep-together"/>
> </xsl:variable>
> <fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="normal.para.spacing">
> <xsl:if test="$keep.together != ''">
> <xsl:attribute name="keep-together.within-column"><xsl:value-of
> select="$keep.together"/></xsl:attribute>
> </xsl:if>
> <xsl:call-template name="anchor"/>
> <xsl:apply-templates/>
> </fo:block>
> </xsl:template>
> ====================
>
> What am I missing?
>
> P.S. I tried to read the mailing list guidelines at
>
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=docbookguidelines.html(linked from
>
http://wiki.docbook.org/topic/DocBookMailingList) but the page was not
> found?
>
> Thanks,
> Sharon
>