Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: qnaentry in div, not html wrapper

[Bob Stayton <bobs at sco dot com>]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 07:48:20PM +0000, Dave Pawson wrote:
> At 10:55 11/03/2003 -0800, Bob Stayton wrote:
> >On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 04:34:43PM +0000, Dave Pawson wrote:
> > > I'm playing with docbook via a servlet,
> > > with queries into mySQL database.
> > > That means I may get n results.
> > >    Each row would refer to a single qnaentry.
> > >
> > > I'd like to wrap them all in a single html document,
> > > each entry in some wrapper.
> > >
> > > Has anyone looked at this class of customisation please?
> >
> >I'm not completely clear on what you are trying to do.
> >Is your servlet converting the data to DocBook elements?
> 
> 1. Take a keyword from a user
> 2. Use that to look up in MySQL.
> 3. Returns the filename (xml docbook)
> 4. Use XSLT and Norms stylesheets to convert to html
> 5. Present that at the servlet as the 'result'.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >Couldn't you create a DocBook document with
> >root element <qandaset> and each entry in
> >a <qandaentry>?  If you give it a title and
> >turn on the qandaset toc, then you wouldn't need any
> >stylesheet customization.
> 
> Each 'answer' will be one qandaentry,
> and since I may want to display n of them,
> I need one html wrapper,
> then n 'divs' or something, one per qandaentry.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >If you want each entry (both Q and A) in a <div> wrapper,
> >then something like this should work:
> >
> ><xsl:template match="qandaentry">
> >   <div class="qandaentry">
> >     <xsl:apply-templates/>
> >   </div>
> ></xsl:template>
> 
> So......
>     Provide my own template for the outer,
>     then xsl:include ... what Bob?
> 
>     Surely not docbook.xsl?
 
> 1. Take a keyword from a user
> 2. Use that to look up in MySQL.
> 3. Returns the filename (xml docbook)
> 4. Use XSLT and Norms stylesheets to convert to html
> 5. Present that at the servlet as the 'result'.

Doesn't "Surely not docbook.xsl" contradict #4?
Why not docbook.xsl?

Anyway, what I was suggesting is that the servlet do this:

3.1  Create a DocBook wrapper document:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE qandaset PUBLIC blah balh>
<qandaset>
<?dbhtml toc="1" ?>
<title>Answers to your question</title>
<xi:include href="first.xml"/>
<xi:include href="second.xml"/>
<xi:include href="third.xml"/>
</qandaset>

Then step 4 processes that to html using xsltproc
with the --xinclude option and docbook.xsl.
Why not docbook.xsl?  Too big, too slow?

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