thank you for your response~
it seems that i inherited docbook stylesheets /with/ customization layers
<property name="html.xsl"
location="${styles.dir}/html/tmaxbook.xsl"/>
<property name="fo.xsl"
location="${styles.dir}/fo/tmaxbook.xsl"/>
the tmaxbook.xsl files currently do only imports (no templates definitions,
parameters settings or variable initializations).
per your instructions i declared and set the document.lang global variable
(in tmaxbook.xsl) and then modified the root.properties attribute-set (in
param.xsl); however, i get "[java] [error] Element must only be used within
a template body;" on the <xsl:choose> line.
within which template should i use this choose/when/otherwise logic? and
pardon if i've missed something. i'm a DocBook/XSLT pre-newbie. the
flipside is that here at my company, compared to everyone else, i'm a
DocBook expert ^^
any input would be appreciated.
thanks,
susan
(RE: http://markmail.org/thread/pbouy4dmj67cdtye)
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Bob Stayton <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Susan,
> There are a couple of ways to accomplish this. All require creating and
> using a customization layer for the stylesheet, a process described here:
>
> http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/CustomMethods.html#CustomizationLayer
>
> If you have just a few differences based on language, you can integrate the
> choices into a single customization layer and use xsl:choose to
> automatically set attribute values based on the lang or xml:lang attribute
> on the document's root element.
>
> If you have lots of languages and many differences, then an alternative
> method is to create separate customization layers for each language, and
> manually select one based on the document's language.
>
> With either method in FO output, you will most likely be modifying
> properties in the attribute-set named 'root.properties', as those attributes
> are applied to the whole document (inheritable properties only).
>
> With the first method, you should first employ the utility template named
> 'l10n.language' to set a global variable to store the value of the root
> element's lang attribute, like this:
>
> <xsl:variable name="document.lang">
> <xsl:call-template name="l10n.language"/>
> </xsl:variable>
>
> For example, if a document starts with <book xml:lang="ja">, then the
> $document.lang variable will be set to "ja". To make this a global variable,
> this definition must be outside of any xsl:template in your customization
> layer.
>
> Then you can modify properties in the root.properties attribute set as
> follows:
>
> <xsl:attribute-set name="root.properties">
> <xsl:attribute name="text-align">
> <xsl:choose>
> <xsl:when test="$document.lang = 'ja'">justify</xsl:when>
> <xsl:otherwise>start</xsl:otherwise>
> </xsl:choose>
> </xsl:attribute>
> [and other attributes in a similar manner]
> </xsl:attribute-set>
>
> If the lang value can be "ja", "ja_JP", "ja-jp", or such, then you should
> modify the test like this:
>
> <xsl:when test="starts-with($document.lang, 'ja')">
>
> String matches are case sensitive, so if some documents use lang="JA", you
> will first have to convert the value to lowercase. There are a couple of
> utility templates to do so, described in:
>
> http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/ReplaceTemplate.html#UtilityTemplates
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> [email protected]
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susan F." <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 12:05 AM
> Subject: [docbook-apps] language-specific text alignment
>
>
> This is a request for information on how to configure or customize
>> DocBook to perform language-specific processing. This is not a
>> question about language-specific text generation, or writing modes.
>> Desired processing logic is: if lang=jp then alignment=justify,
>> otherwise alignment=left.
>>
>> We use XXE as our input tool, DocBook as formatting instructions, and
>> Apache ANT as our XML -> PDF processor. Our PDFs must be formatted
>> based on the requirements of their destination country (US, Korea,
>> China, Japan).
>>
>> This announcement, http://markmail.org/message/5wo3fy4fk5zwrkdx, says
>> DocBook 1.74.2 has "support for writing.mode to set text direction and
>> alignment based on document locale". This seems like what we need. But
>> further investigation reveals that (a.) I don't know how to identify
>> the version of DocBook stylesheets I'm using (which I inherited), and
>> (b.) this support seems to be related only to HTML PI ??
>>
>> Any suggestions, comments, ideas, solutions will be appreciated.
>> Thank you,
>> Susan
>>
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