docbook: Updated XSL Stylesheets
Subject:
Re: Updated XSL Stylesheets
From:
Emma Jane Hogbin ####@####.####
Date:
4 Jul 2003 03:58:10 -0000
Message-Id: <20030704035809.GA1464@xtrinsic.com>
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 08:23:52PM -0500, David Horton wrote:
> Some day soon I would like to process the same Docbook XML document
> using both Norman Walsh's docbook-xsl and the tldp-xsl customizations
> and then put the html outputs through a validator. This should
> determine which one is causing the HTML sloppiness.
I've found that the problems are in the tldp-html-common.xsl file. I don't
have enough vocabulary to describe the problem properly; however, I'll
give it a try. David I'll email you my two revised files: styles.css and
tldp-html-common.xsl -- I've added some comments to the top of the xsl
file.
There are a number of elements that are specifically called in the
tldp-html-common.xsl file: <pre>, author headings (calls <i>) and <meta>.
These are the only elements that do not validate correctly because of an
xmlns attribute that is not allowed in the (above) elements.
An example looks like this:
<xsl:template name="user.head.content">
<xsl:param name="node" select="."/>
<meta name="generator" content="Experimental LDP.XSL $Revision: 1.4 $"/>
<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
<xsl:comment> Generated by LDP XSLT customization layer
based on Norman Walsh's DocBook XSL stylesheets.
More information at http://www.tldp.org/ </xsl:comment>
<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>
NOTE: the <meta /> tag. This results in an incorrectly added xmlns in the
final HTML document. I don't know enough about XSLT to know how to fix
this, but there must be a way to print an element that is recognized
somehow and therefore doesn't get an xmlns attribute added to it.
I propose competely removing the formatting changes for <pre>. All they
were doing was adding a table with a background color. This can be done in
the stylesheets. Another style sheet correctly adds a
class="docbookattribute" if tldp-html-common.xsl <pre> section is removed,
which is good as specific classes can be styled from the style sheet if
you want to have one type of <pre> that is different from another.
So that the formatting isn't lost the following should be added to the
styles.css file:
pre {
background: #E0E0E0;
margin: 0 5%;
padding: 5%;
}
This duplicates the styling effects that were being achieved by the XSLT
template which means the <table> formatting can be removed.
In the styles.css file I would reduce the margin to:
body {
margin: 5%; /* was 72pt; */
font-family: sans-serif;
}
I hope this helps!
emma
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