Re: DOCBOOK: any examples of article titlepage customization

[Bob Stayton <bobs at caldera dot com>]

On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 12:18:31PM +0100, O'Donnell, Vincent wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I am trying to change the article titlepage.
> 
> Basically I want to have a company logo before anything else.
> 
> Before trying to put a picture into the titlepage I am trying to get success
> with just modifying what is already there. So using the 't:' thing I have
> made this xml file:
> 
> <t:templates xmlns:t="http://nwalsh.com/docbook/xsl/template/1.0";
> xmlns:param="http://nwalsh.com/docbook/xsl/template/1.0/param";
> xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format";
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
> base-stylesheet="C:\XML\docbook-xsl-1.50.1-EXP\fo\docbook.xls">
> 
> <t:titlepage element="article" wrapper="fo:block">
>  <t:titlepage-content side="recto">
>   <title named-template="component.title"
> param:node="ancestor-or-self::article[1]" fo:text-align="center"
> fo:keep-with-next="always" fo:font-size="24.8832pt" fo:font-weight="bold"
> fo:font-family="{$title.font.family}" /> 
>   <subtitle fo:font-family="{$title.font.family}" fo:text-align="center" /> 
>   <revision fo:text-align="center" /> 
>   <revhistory /> 
>  </t:titlepage-content>
> 
>  <t:titlepage-content side="verso" /> 
>   <t:titlepage-separator />
>   <copyright fo:text-align="center" /> 
>   <legalnotice /> 
>  
>  <t:titlepage-before side="recto" /> 
>  <t:titlepage-before side="verso" /> 
>  
> </t:titlepage>
> 
> (I basically copied it from titlepage.templates.xml, cut a few items out and
> moved one or two)
> 
> I have tried transforming that with the fo titlepage.xsl and using xalan. I
> get this error:
> 
> file:/c:/xml/docbook-xsl-1.50.1-EXP/fo/titlepage.xsl; Line 20; Column -1;
> XSLT Error (javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException):
> javax.xml.transform.TransformerException:
> org.apache.xml.utils.WrappedRuntimeException: Could not find variable with
> the name of title.font.family
> 
> Anyone had such trouble?
> Anyone have a concrete working example of such article titlepage
> modification?
> I am pursuing the right path for my final goal of putting an image at the
> start of the article titlepage?

Ah, you don't use the fo/titlepage.xsl stylesheet for that
purpose.  Instead you need to use the template/titlepage.xsl
template.  They are unfortunately named the same.

Here is the process in a nutshell:

1. copy  fo/titlepage.templates.xml  to  customized.xml

2. edit customized.xml

3. <yourXSLprocesor>  template/titlepage.xsl  customized.xml > customized.xsl

4.  xsl:include customized.xsl in your fo customization layer.

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