Hello,
I've been trying to figure out how to create a book that has the answers
from qanda at the back of the book in an appendix. I run two sets of
transformations. One to build a qanda XML file, and a second one to
build the full book with this additional qanda XML file as an appendix.
I've gotten part of the way there with the following XSLT style sheet,
but I still have to edit the qanda XML file by hand to remove irrelevant
information. It works-ish, but I'd like to understand how to do this
sort of thing correctly.
Right now the DocBook is set up as follows (very abbreviated, of course):
<chapter>
<title>Chapter title</title>
<itemizedlist>Summary of what's to come</itemizedlist>
<sect1>contents</sect1>
<sect1>contents</sect1>
...
<sect1 role="qanda">questions</sect1>
</chapter>
Using the style sheet below I still have to go through after the
transformation and remove the <itemizedlist> by hand. The reason this
content ISN'T in a <sect1> is because I want it to show up on the first
page of the chapter. All <sect1>s have a page-break before, so to keep
the content where I want it, I've removed the <sect1>s from the intro
(this is probably really wrong, but it works). :)
Here is the style sheet:
<xsl:template match="sect1">
<xsl:if test="@role='qanda'">
<sect1><xsl:apply-templates/></sect1>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="not(@role='questions')"></xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="node()|@*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()" />
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="qandaset">
<xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="qandaentry">
<xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="question">
<formalpara><title>Question:</title>
<xsl:apply-templates />
</formalpara>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="answer">
<formalpara><title>Answer:</title>
<xsl:apply-templates />
</formalpara>
</xsl:template>
(1) Would it be easier to strip out the chapter pre-ambles if I changed
my DocBook? (How would I eliminate the line break on the front page of
the chapter if I did change the markup to <sect1>?)
(2) I'm not sure how to make the root element <appendix> in the
qanda.xml file?
(3) Am I going about this the wrong way? I tried searching for things
like, "qanda answers end of book xsl docbook" and have found pages like
<http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/HideAnswers.html>; however, this
only shows how to hide the answers, not how to compile them at the back
of the book.
(4) I would also like to know how to update the <title> for the qanda
<sect1>s to include the chapter title. Right now I update this by hand
as part of the editing process.
I know I'm getting greedy with my questions, so I will stop there for
now. :)
Thanks for your insight in advance. Please feel free to point me at
online resources if I've missed the basics somewhere along the way.
regards,
emma
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Emma Jane Hogbin
web. www.hicktech.com
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