Oops..I wasn’t thinking. That will only work if all your images are svg files…you’ll errors asking it to parse binary files :-)
Sorry for the noise, David From: Cramer, David W (David) [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 4:13 PM To: chris snow Cc: [email protected]; Jim Campbell Subject: RE: [docbook] how to throw error if imagedata not found Hi Chris, Btw, I ran across a potentially better answer to your question (depending on the behavior of your xslt processor): http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/N2602.html#d3859e19 David From: Cramer, David W (David) [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 11:42 AM To: Jim Campbell; chris snow Cc: [email protected] Subject: RE: [docbook] how to throw error if imagedata not found Hi Chris, Here’s what we do: The build runs an xslt that produces a list of images used. Ant then checks to make sure all are the images available and kills with a useful error message the build if any are missing. To avoid an annoying build/fail/fix/repeat cycle, the error message shows all missing images rather than only listing the first missing image it finds. I think to do something like this within the xslt would require that you write an extension/call out to java. David From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Campbell Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 11:27 AM To: chris snow Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [docbook] how to throw error if imagedata not found Hi there, Chris, On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:16 AM, chris snow <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Is it possible for an error to be thrown during processing if a file referred to by imagedata is not found? <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="../../images/coding-cycle.png"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> Many thanks, Chris It might not be exactly what you are looking for, but one option would be to include the image via an xinclude mechanism, and then include a xinclude fallback. It might go something like this: <mediaobject> <imageobject> <xi:include fileref="../../images/coding-cycle.png"> <xi:fallback>Image file is unavailable.</xi:fallback> </xi:include> </imageobject> </mediaobject> You would need to use a DTD or schema (or at least a DTD fragment) that allows for use of xinclude. I hope this helps, Jim
