woohoo!

Works perfectly. Thank you, Mr. Stayton.

Now I know just enough to really mess up things...




On Jun 15, 2010, at 12:32 PM, Bob Stayton wrote:

Hi,
The syntax you want is:

<xsl:attribute name="id">
  <xsl:call-template name="object.id"/>
</xsl:attribute>

The template named "object.id" is a DocBook XSL utility template for getting 
the id or xml:id of the current element.

To implement this in a customization layer, you should copy the template named 
'toc.line' from html/autotoc.xsl to your customization layer and change it 
there.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>


----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Dobbs<mailto:[email protected]>
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 2:25 PM
Subject: [docbook-apps] Adding an ID attribute to HTML output


I'm trying to add an ID attribute to DocBook's HTML TOC generation, like this:

<span class="sect1"><a id="Overview" 
href="foo/bar/things/Overview.html">Overview</a></span>
<ul>
<li><span class="sect2"><a id="KeyFeatures" 
href="foo/bar/things/KeyFeatures.html">Key Features</a></span></li>
<li><span class="sect2"><a id="sample" 
href="applications/sample.html">Sample</a></span></li>
</ul>
...


The ID value is simply taken from the xml:id value of the respective XML source 
tag

I need a nudge in the right direction. When I take a peek inside the DocBook 
dragon, er, rather, collection of .xsl files, I find 
thatdocbook-xsl-ns-1.75.1/html/autotoc.xsl in the html folder seems to be 
responsible for the TOC generation. I also see that line 318* right after the 
<span> nicely adds a class name to the enclosing span such that  <span 
class="sect1"> and so forth is written.

*<xsl:attribute name="class"><xsl:value-of 
select="local-name(.)"/></xsl:attribute>


I am guessing that if I add a similar line right after the subsequent <a>, I 
can get what I'm after. Something like:


<xsl:attribute name="id"><xsl:value-of select="???"/></xsl:attribute>

But my question is, what do I add in for ???

And my other question is, is there a way to handle this in the customization 
layer?


-Tom Dobbs

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