I wanted to be able to have a way to make an author's name into a link
and so added a url attribute to the author element. To process this new
attribute, I had to customize the person.name template. The real work
is still done in a slightly changed copy of the original template. The
only change is the new name. Works fine, but the code duplication is
not pretty:
<xsl:template name="person.name">
<xsl:param name="node" select="."/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$node/@url">
<a href="{$node/@url}">
<xsl:call-template name="person.name.original">
<xsl:with-param name="node" select="$node"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</a>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:call-template name="person.name.original">
<xsl:with-param name="node" select="$node"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="person.name.original">
<!-- ...duplicated original template... -->
</xsl:template>
The duplication could be avoided if there was an indirection in the
docbook stylesheets. But that doesn't seem right, either.
Michael
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