Tom Blimey. I'd forgotten XSLT processors don't validate by default. Pages of whinges resolved, and I got my title. Validity was the issue.
The winning XPath: <xsl:value-of select="/d:book/d:info/d:title"/> as I'd opted to make the title a child of info. So now I'll remember to Keep It Valid. Tx Stephen 2008/8/24 Thomas Schraitle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi Stephen, > > On Sonntag, 24. August 2008, Stephen Taylor wrote: > > Looking for an XPath expression that will give me the title of my book. > > > > I want the title element of my book reproduced in the running headers. > > In the header.content template <http://pastebin.com/m424a9b30> in my > > customisation layer I've been trying variations of > > > > <xsl:value-of select="/bookinfo/title"></xsl:value-of> > > <xsl:apply-templates select="/bookinfo/title" /> > > > > but get an empty result. > > First, from what I've seen, I fear your DocBook5 document is not valid. > DocBook5 does not have any bookinfo elements anymore. It is replaced with > info. As a rule of thumb, always validate your document before applying > any transformations on it. :) > > Second, as you have a DocBook5 document, you have to use the respective > namespace in your stylesheets too. Declare it in your root element, for > example: > > <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" > xmlns:d="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"; > xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";> > ... > </xsl:stylesheet> > > After this modification, you have to use the declared prefix on all your > DocBook5 elements: > > <xsl:apply-templates select="d:info/d:title"/> > > However, a title can occur not only inside a d:info element, it can occur > directly after d:book too. Probably it is better to extend the above > expression like this (if your current context is d:book): > > <xsl:apply-templates select="(d:info/d:title|d:title)[1]"/> > > This selects only one of the possible titles, either in d:info or in > d:book. If you need only the string content of a title regardless of the > elements inside, replace xsl:apply-templates with xsl:value-of. > > This is just a general explanation, maybe you have to play with the > customization a bit and use other modes. See also Bob's book for more > information at http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/index.html > > > > The document is modular: a short master > > document<http://pastebin.com/m6e07225c>includes a series of article > > documents. Is that changing the reference of > > the document root? > > I'm not sure what you mean by "changing the reference of the document > root". > > > > If so, then > > > > <xsl:value-of select="/artheader/title"></xsl:value-of> > > > > would yield my article titles in the headers. But that doesn't happen > > either. > > Probably the same issue as above. > > > Hope that helps, > Tom > > -- > Thomas Schraitle > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
