If you are using the XSLT 1 stylesheets, then placing an empty <toc>
element where you want a TOC, and setting the 'process.empty.source.toc'
stylesheet param to 1 will generate a TOC for that element. It applies
to hierarchy elements like chapter and section, but not arbitrary elements.
https://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/doc/fo/process.empty.source.toc.html
Changing the behavior of each TOC would require customization of the
templates in the DocBook toc.xsl stylesheet module that match on the toc
element, such as:
<xsl:template match="chapter/toc | appendix/toc | preface/toc |
article/toc">
so they respond to a processing instruction or attribute setting in the
way you want. I would not classify that as an "easy" way, though.
Bob
On 5/24/2023 6:45 AM, Tom Moore wrote:
It appears to me that the parameters that control the placement and
content of tocs apply at a document level. What I am wondering is if
it is possible to to set different values for 'generate.toc',
'toc.section.depth', 'toc.max.dept' etc for different chapters/appendices?
In my document (being output as chunked html) most chapters/appendices
only need a table of contents at the top of the chapter with
toc.section.depth=2, toc.max.depth=2. There are some chapters with
considerable detail that would benefit from also having a table of
contents inserted at the top sect3 with toc.max.depth=1. And there is
one appendix that only needs one toc at the top with a max depth of 1.
Is there an easy way to obtain this variety? Or am I heading down the
path to madness?
Thanks,
Tom
