Hi Ron,
This customization works the way you want it. If you look in
fo/autotoc.xsl, you will see that the children of an element for which you
are generating a toc are processed in mode="toc", and with a param named
"toc-context", which is the element for which you are generating the toc.
This customization handles only nested sections, and checks the
$toc-context to see if it should proceed. If the context is article and
the depth is greater than 1, then it does not apply-imports. You can
adjust the values as needed.
<xsl:param name="generate.section.toc.level">4</xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="toc.section.depth">4</xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="generate.toc">
article toc,title
section toc
</xsl:param>
<xsl:template match="section[ancestor::section]" mode="toc">
<xsl:param name="toc-context" select="NOTANODE"/>
<xsl:variable name="section.depth"
select="count(ancestor-or-self::section)"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$toc-context/self::article and
$section.depth > 1">
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:apply-imports/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net