On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Hussein Shafie <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/21/2012 02:47 PM, Jirka Kosek wrote: >> >> idea of custom title page is very nice, however it lacks one important >> feature. Content of FO (or XHTML) file is included as is, it is not >> possible to use XSLT/XPath constructs inside it. In many cases custom >> title page depends on information from document itself and content has >> to be created dynamically. > > Thanks Jirka! We understand your point. However our analysis was > different from yours: > > Someone who really needs a custom title page will not bother carefully > crafting it by hand. This is why, in our opinion, supporting only static > custom title pages is at the same time sufficient, simple to understand > for a user and simple to implement for us.
Just for another data point... We have had to duplicate a pre-existing title page format by hand-crafting the title page layout with FO. In order to achieve the (minor amount) of customization that Jirka refers to, we use entity definitions. Specifically, we have a title-page FO template and a simple script that adds the the entity definitions at the top as part of processing steps before invoking DITAC. -Doug -- XMLmind DITA Converter Support List [email protected] http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/ditac-support
