Typo: That first word was supposed to be "Unlike", not "Unless".
Bob Stayton Sagehill Enterprises [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: Bob Stayton To: Jon Rosen ; [email protected] Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 11:45 PM Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] How do I customize docbook/fo stylesheet to do custom page breaks on sections? Hi Jon, Unless global params, an attribute-set is evaluated each time it is used, in the context of the element being processed. So putting an xsl:choose inside the body of an xsl:attribute element works, but be sure to include an xsl:otherwise so you don't get an empty attribute. In your case, I would recommend adding a role attribute to the special chapter, rather than relying on its position in the document (which can change). If you used <chapter role="StatementDefs">, then your stylesheet could use: <xsl:attribute-set name="section.level1.properties"> <xsl:attribute name="break-before"> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="ancestor::chapter/@role = 'StatementDefs'">page</xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise>auto</xsl:otherwise> </xsl:choose> </xsl:attribute> </xsl:attribute-set> This feature of XSLT is very handy for stuff like this. Bob Stayton Sagehill Enterprises [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: Jon Rosen To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2011 12:39 PM Subject: [docbook-apps] How do I customize docbook/fo stylesheet to do custom page breaks on sections? I have no idea if anyone on this forum will be familiar enough with Docbook and the XSL-FO stylesheets for creating PDFs but I need to figure out how to customize my stylesheet template so that I can do pagebreaks differently for each chapter. There is a standard param element to set page breaks on sections: <xsl:attribute-set name="section.level1.properties"> <xsl:attribute name="break-before">page</xsl:attribute> </xsl:attribute-set> But this is universal, i.e., ALL chapters in the book get set with this property. Chapter 4 has statement definitions for each element of our SQL language and because of the layout, we would like each section to start on a new page. However, the other chapters have lots of very small sections at the sect1 level and when they page-break, the book looks awful. So I want chapter 4 to do this, but on the other chapters, I just want regular non-breaking section 1 headings. I figure I need some kind of "xsl:if" statement that tests the chapter number and puts in this attribute modification just for chapter 4 but I have no real idea how to find out what variable has the chapter numbers to compare and where to put this test (xsl is still a bit mysterious to me although I am getting more familiar all the time). Any help would be GREATLY appreciated! Jon "bleurose" Rosen [email protected] PS - feel free to email me directly. Jon Rosen "Sometimes you're the pinball wizard, and sometimes you're just the pinball."
