Interesting idea about the nesting. Be careful of relying on too many colors if some users are color blind.
I'm afraid you can't match * or it will break when someone does <listitem role="highlight"> and several other elements that can't be wrapped in a fo:block. David > -----Original Message----- > From: Tobias Anstett [k15t.com] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 8:14 AM > To: David Cramer > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [docbook] Highlighting complete areas in DocBook > > Hi David, > > thanks a lot for this example. I took your input and created > some alternative approach: > > <xsl:template match="*...@role='highlight']" priority="10"> > <xsl:variable name="count"> > <xsl:value-of > select="count(ancestor::node()[...@role='highlight'])"/> > </xsl:variable> > <fo:block> > <xsl:attribute name="background-color"> > <xsl:choose> > <!-- first level --> > <xsl:when test="$count > = 0">blue</xsl:when> > <!-- second level --> > <xsl:when test="$count > = 1">green</xsl:when> > <!-- third level --> > <xsl:when test="$count > = 2">purple</xsl:when> > > <xsl:otherwise>orange</xsl:otherwise> > </xsl:choose> > </xsl:attribute> > <xsl:apply-imports /> > </fo:block> > </xsl:template> > > I will test both approaches (yours and mine) with complex > nestings of elements with the role=highlight attribute. What > do you think about? > > Cheers, Tobias > > On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 10:40 PM, David Cramer > <[email protected]> wrote: > > To avoid needing to customize tons of templates, I do the following > > for that situation. This allows us to add role="highlight" to any > > element and have it be highlighted yellow. This needs to be in a > > customization layer that imports the docbook xsls because > it relies on > > doing an > > xsl:apply-imports: > > > > For html (assuming you have something like .remark{ background: > > yellow; } in your css): > > > > <xsl:template match="text()[ ancestor::*/@role = > 'highlight' ] | xref[ > > ancestor::*/@role = 'highlight' ]" priority="10"><span > > class="remark"><xsl:apply-imports/></span></xsl:template> > > > > And for fo: > > > > <xsl:template match="text()[ ancestor::*/@role = 'highlight' ] | > > xref[ ancestor::*/@role = 'highlight' ]" priority="10"> > > <fo:inline xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"; > > background-color="yellow"><xsl:apply-imports/></fo:inline> > > </xsl:template> > > > > David > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Tobias Anstett [k15t.com] [mailto:[email protected]] > >> Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 2:57 PM > >> To: [email protected] > >> Subject: [docbook] Highlighting complete areas in DocBook > >> > >> Hi together, > >> > >> is there a way to highlight docbook elements in a generic way? I'd > >> like to be able to put some extra attribute or pi to any docbook > >> element to highlight it e.g. set the background color of a para > >> (resulting fo:block) to red for PDF output. I already had > a look at > >> the change highlighting documented at > >> http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Changebars.html, but > because i am > >> using Apache FOP i need some other mechanism to highlight docbook > >> elements (and it childs) ranging from para, admonition, > >> programmlistings, table, etc. to table. > >> > >> Cheers, Tobias > >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >> > >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
