Re: [docbook-apps] base.dir param not working in customization layer

[Larry Garfield <larry at garfieldtech dot com>]

And I'd even tried the single-quotes to fix a different param issue I 
was having and didn't think of it here. :-)  That did it, thanks!

On a related note, I'm having a similar problem with the 
chunker.output.indent parameter being ignored.  Whether it's set via the 
customization file or command line, I still get a line break-free output 
file.  (This is the one where I DID try putting "yes" in quotes, and it 
still didn't work, yet didn't think to try that on the base.dir as well. 
<g>)  Would that be a related issue?

Bob Stayton wrote:
> <xsl:param name="base.dir" select="../output"/>
>
> This doesn't work because a plain text string in a 'select' attribute is
> taken to be an XPath, so it is looking for an element named 'output'.  This
> is probably the most common mistake in XSL programming, and everyone makes
> it.  8^)
>
> Put the string in single quotes, or make it the content of the xsl:param
> element:
>
> <xsl:param name="base.dir">../output/</xsl:param>
>
> Note the trailing slash too, as the stylesheet doesn't supply that.
>
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> DocBook Consulting
> bobs@sagehill.net
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Larry Garfield" <larry@garfieldtech.com>
> To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 9:48 PM
> Subject: [docbook-apps] base.dir param not working in customization layer
>
>
>
> > I'm working with the DocBook XSL scripts for the first time, although
> > I've been using DocBook with my own XSLT scripts for a few years.
> >
> > I'm trying to use the chunk.xsl script and set a base.dir for the
> > output, but it's not working in the customization layer.  From the
> > command line, however, it does.  I'm using Xalan 2.6 in either case.
> >
> > Command line that does work:
> >
> > java \
> > -cp "/usr/share/java/xalan2.jar"\
> > org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process  \
> > -in  src/handbook.xml  \
> > -param base.dir ../output/ \
> > -xsl chunked.xsl
> >
> > Customization layer that does not work (base.dir has no effect)
> > (chunked.xsl):
> >
> > <?xml version='1.0'?>
> > <xsl:stylesheet
> >         xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; version="1.0">
> > <!-- Import the base chunk stylesheet for HTML -->
> >  <xsl:import
> >      href="/usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/nwalsh/html/chunk.xsl"/>
> >
> >   <xsl:param name="html.stylesheet" select="'../styles/library.css'"/>
> >   <xsl:param name="chunk.fast" select="1"/>
> >   <xsl:param name="base.dir" select="../output"/>
> >   <xsl:param name="chunk.section.depth" select="0"/>
> >
> > </xsl:stylesheet>

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