Hi
Some newbie questions below. I have been battling with getting
the document info elements working in the footer, and have hit a
number of dead-ends. I suspect my questions and all related, and
my lack of understanding underpins them all.
I have a simple document:
<book>
<info>
<date>2009-03-29</date>
<releaseinfo><trademark
class="registered">CompanyName</trademark> Ltd 2009, all rights
reserved.</releaseinfo>
and want parts of the document info elements to appear in the
footer, so:
<xsl:when test="$position = 'left'">
<xsl:value-of select="d:info/d:date"/>
<fo:block/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="d:info/d:date"/>
</xsl:when>
Q1 - which is the preferred way of doing this, value-of or
apply-templates?
However, when I pull into the release info into the footer using
apply-templates, I get the following compile error:
"Element releaseinfo in namespace 'http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'
encountered in info, but no template matches."
I can get around this by specifying a mode parameter, but I am
not sure what mode to be setting.
Q2 - why does releaseinfo behave differently to date?
Q3 - if apply-templates is the right way of doing this, then
should there be a mode setting, if so what/why?
Then something strange happens with how the releaseinfo is
displayed, with this setup in the footer:
<xsl:apply-templates select="d:info/d:releaseinfo"/>
<fo:block/>
<xsl:value-of select="d:info/d:releaseinfo"/>
The apply-templates line produces this output:
"<releaseinfo>CompanyName® Ltd 2009, all rights
reserved.</releaseinfo>"
and the value-of produces this output:
"CompanyName Ltd 2009, all rights reserved."
Q4 - why does the value-of lose the registered trademark?
Finally, the footer output for date and releaseinfo appear on the
titlepage and toc, but as soon as the main body of the document
(i.e. chapter 1 on) starts, the output from date and releaseinfo
do not appear in the footer at all.
Q5 - why does the behaviour change at the point, and how to
resolve?
Thanks for any help/pointers.
Damon
