A completely different approach would be to populate that with JavaScript using, e.g. document.title.replace(/"/g,""), to get the contents of head/title from the generated html document.
David > -----Original Message----- > From: Bob Stayton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 4:44 PM > To: [email protected]; Sam Steingold > Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] where is the title of the current chunk? > > Hi Sam, > It isn't clear from your snippet what the context is of the > current template. That would help understand what "node()" > is in this context. > Generally node() means to select all the child text and > elements from the current context, so I doubt that is what you want. > > You apply templates in mode="object.title.markup.textonly" > when the context is an element with a title. The select > attribute needs to specify that element from the given > context. Perhaps you just want select="." to select the > current element? > > But I'm not sure how you would select the element that > determines the chunk containing any given context. It could > check ancestors, but it would have to recursively move up > through the sequence of ancestors to find the one that is the > chunk node. There is a recursive-chunk-filename template > that walks up an element tree to find the chunk filename of > the current context, but not the title of the chunk. > > But if your context is already the element that is the chunk, > the select="." > would work. > > Bob Stayton > Sagehill Enterprises > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sam Steingold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 2:08 PM > Subject: [docbook-apps] where is the title of the current chunk? > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > I want to use the title of the current html chunk in a template. > > if I wanted to use the id, I would have written <input > value="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"/>. > > I tried > > <input><xsl:attribute name="value"> > > ~ <xsl:apply-templates select="node()" > > ~ mode="object.title.markup.textonly"/> > > ~ </xsl:attribute></input> > > > > but got nothing useful plus a ton of errors like > > > > No template for "/book/part/chapter/section/subtitle" (or any of its > > leaves) exists in the context named "title" in the "en" > localization. > > > > so: where is the title? > > > > thanks! > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > > > iD8DBQFHl7rWPp1Qsf2qnMcRAo8vAJ0YvqSThrMu21vgHnQ4Fo1p3WQjjQCglztl > > EwVdHQuIUFe/ms+SstO4hlQ= > > =xYpt > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
