Hi Robert,
The mechanism in the stylesheet that lets you customize class attributes can also be
used to add other attributes such as style or width. Most element templates include
something like this:
<xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="class.attribute">
If not, then it has this:
<xsl:call-template name="common.html.attributes">
which in turn applies templates in mode="class.attribute". The default template in
that mode is in html/html.xsl:
<xsl:template match="*" mode="class.attribute">
<xsl:param name="class" select="local-name(.)"/>
<!-- permit customization of class attributes -->
<!-- Use element name by default -->
<xsl:attribute name="class">
<xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="class.value">
<xsl:with-param name="class" select="$class"/>
</xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:template>
As you can see, that template generates an attribute whose name is "class" and whose
value is determined using mode="class.value", which is the mode I usually advise
people to customize when they need to change the class value for an element.
But you could expand this template to include additional <xsl:attribute> elements to
generate additional attributes, such as style or width. Since this is a mode, you can
write separate templates for each element that needs to generate different extra
attributes, using the match attribute on the template to select a specific XPath
pattern. How you determine the values from your content is up to you. As Nic
suggests, role attribute could be used.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
[email protected]
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From: "Nic Gibson" <[email protected]>
To: "Robert Nagle" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 9:28 AM
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] how to add a style attribute inside a P element? (Kindle
insanity!)
Hi Robert
I've been doing some of the same things you are doing here. I'm not convinced that are
right about the Kindle indenting (I'm looking at some titles I worked on and we've
used css classes for the indent and it's working just fine).
For the width, I postprocess. I'm working on a set of scripts for a client at the
moment that takes an EPUB and does some mappings for the Kindle. I may be able to make
them available to you (the client is often happy for code written for them to be put
into the public domain).
There is no reason why you couldn't do both the things you are discussing here using a
customisation though. You could use a template that operates on role attributes
perhaps.
nic
On 3 Aug 2011, at 12:47, Robert Nagle wrote:
To add to my remarks:
one common Kindle formatting example is to output
to <p width=75"> or <p width=-20">
so it would be nice if we could have a general way to add an attribute
like "width" in some cases.
(I don't know if it would validate as XHTML though).
rj
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 6:36 AM, Robert Nagle <[email protected]> wrote:
I'm outputting a lot of epub and frequently I need to massage the
output so that the epub can be converted into the Kindle format.
One inherent problem with kindlegen is that it strips out most CSS
code and instead adds some formatting attributes inside individual
elements.
One example. You cannot turn off indenting in Kindle unless you
hardcode something like <p style="text-indent:0">
So I do post-processing, I would have to do a global search and replace:
Change <p class="no-indent"> to <p style="text-indent:0"> in all instances.
Change <div class="caption"><p> to <div.caption><p
style="text-indent:0"> in all instances.
Change <p class="pullquote"> to <p style="text-indent:0"> in all instances.
I wouldn't even know how to get started to do this in customization layer.
I've seen this discussion
http://markmail.org/search/?q=class.attribute&q=list%3Aorg.oasis-open.lists.docbook-apps#query:class.attribute%20list%3Aorg.oasis-open.lists.docbook-apps%20from%3A%22Bob%20Stayton%22+page:1+mid:7jfjygrqiz5pc7bs+state:results
where css.decoration is mentioned as well as custom class values
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/HtmlCustomEx.html#CustomClassValues
I think the section on "custom class values" seems relevant, but I
can't follow the example.
YOu would need to add a custom attribute to these elements (style) as
well as values (text-indent:0).
Do you have an idea about how to attack this problem? Thanks.
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