FWIW, the $path has just what I hoped in it and works well.

Thanks!
Karl

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Karl Wright <daddy...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Then, inside your own document-to-fo.xsl you should have access
>> to a "path" parameter.  You may add an additional condition to the
>> font of interest (e.g. rootFontFamily) that uses XSL string functions
>> against your $path parameter.
>>
>
> I've set things up so that my document path includes the language code
> (e.g. 'en_US') as the first part of the path under
> src/documentation/content/xdocs.  For example,
> src/documentation/content/xdocs/en_US/mydocument.xml would be the
> starting point.  The question is what the $path variable will contain
> - if it's just "en_US/mydocument.xml" my job is easy.  If it could be
> "en_US\mydocument.xml" on Windows and "en_US/mydocument.xml" on Unix
> it's a bit harder.   But if it is the absolute path xsl expressions
> aren't going to help me and I'd better find a better solution.
>
> What I'd do (and this might even make a decent general patch) is look
> for the property with the language specifier first.  For example,
> instead of looking for "output.pdf.fontFamily.sansSerif" first, I'd
> look for "output.pdf.fontFamily.sansSerif.en_US" first, and only look
> for the other if that property is not found.
>
> So, what can I expect to see for the $path parameter?
>
> Thanks again for your help!
> Karl