Stefan Seefeld wrote:
I think I'm a bit confused now as to what the question is. What I'm
asking for is a way to mark up slide ('foil') content in a way that
allows me to incrementally build up the whole slide one step at a time.
Yet the description you gave went all the way to 'using' the slide set
in a dynamic manner, that's why I wanted to understand the scope of
the changes you talked about.
If we constrain the docbook work to markup only, I'd be happier.
In which case I don't understand enough to suggest anything.
Could you define it? Simple example first?
Right now I'm using this:
<itemizedlist role="incremental"> ...</itemizedlist>
to generate incremental lists. (S5's javascript will detect DOM nodes
with class=incremental and process them appropriately.) While something
like this certainly works (although I'd rather use another, dedicated,
attribute instead of 'role'), something like keeping list items and
overlayed graphics in sync is not so easy (it's not even supported by S5
right now, but that's just a matter of programming ;-) )
I haven't thought this through yet myself, as I think it may be good to
take the first step first...
If you can look after the 'S5' end, and just keep the discussions here
on markup, is that workable?
Which is a mile away from semantic or even presentational markup?
It is exactly xsl-fo. Take this block, flow it into that position.
<foil template="my-two-column-template">
<block name="left">
<itemizedlist/>
</block>
<block name="right">
<mediaobject/>
</block>
<block name="footer"/>
</foil>
I.e., I add block elements that have little more semantics than 'divs'
in html. Their layout can then be described by means of
'my-two-column-template' (which may trigger some chunk of CSS to be
included with precise layout info for these blocks.
Should they be in a foils namespace, being a docbook extension?
(At least for db5)
Where (in the schema) are you adding them?
You are certainly right that to some extent this is what xsl-fo is
about, but only at the top level, i.e. the page layout. The block
content is just ordinary docbook.
Which exactly mirrors what xsl-fo does :-)
regards
--
Dave Pawson
XSLT XSL-FO FAQ.
http://www.dpawson.co.uk
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