Re: DOCBOOK: titlepage customization

[Bob Stayton <bobs at caldera dot com>]

On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 05:05:14PM -0500, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> hi there,
> 
> I'm trying to generate a titlepage.xsl file as described in the docs.
> Within templates/ I execute
> 
> 4xslt -o testtemplate.xsl testtemplate.xml titlepage.xsl
> 
> However, the resulting xsl file looks not correct and I'm wondering what 
> the problem is. Here is the resulting file:
> 
> <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version='1.0' 
> xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'>
> 
> <!-- This stylesheet was created by template/titlepage.xsl; do not edit 
> it by hand. -->
> 
> <xsl:import href='../html/docbook.xsl'/>docbook.css
> 
>    <xsl:apply-templates select='corpauthor|author|editor' 
> mode='article.titlepage.recto.auto.mode'/>
> 
> 
> <xsl:template name='article.titlepage'>
>    < side='recto'>
>      <xsl:call-template name='article.titlepage.before.recto'/>
>      <xsl:call-template name='article.titlepage.recto'/>
>      <xsl:call-template name='article.titlepage.before.verso'/>
>      <xsl:call-template name='article.titlepage.verso'/>
>      <xsl:call-template name='article.titlepage.separator'/>
>    </>
> </xsl:template>
>    <xsl:apply-templates select='authorgroup|author' 
> mode='.titlepage.recto.auto.mode'/>
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> i.e., the article.titlepage template looks as if the first child
> element is just missing its name (hence the empy '</>' at the end.... Is 
> that 4xslt's fault or is the problem on docbook's side ? (I tried with 
> different versions of the docbook xsl stylesheets).

I think this is a problem with 4xslt.  It works with
xsltproc.  It looks like 4xslt did not handle the t:
namespace that the stylesheet uses.  Does it have a problem with
namespaces in XML?
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