docbook: Thread: DocBook question

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Hello All,

Can anyone here help me with the following:

I'm writing a FAQ in DocBook XML, and I want the answer(s) to a question
to be printed on the same page.
I tried the advise that is explained here:
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/PageBreaking.html
- -> soft page breaks are not supported yet (I use xsltproc and fop-0.20.5)
- -> hard breaks with the code snippet and my own XSL stylesheet containing
only this template and a reference to
/usr/share/docbook-xsl-1.67.2/fo/docbook.xsl gives this error:

namespace error: Namespace prefix fo on block is not defined.

I also tried the keep-together method but it does not seem to work on
qandaentry.


Then I also want the questions to be numbered, and the answers as well:

1. question blabla
	A. answer
	B. answer

2. question blabla
	A. answer
	B. answer
	C. answer

I tried labeling the questions using <question label="1">, <question
label="2"> etc, but to no effect.  I guess there is no processing
instruction for this (yet).

Maybe I better go for orderedliss instead of trying this with qandaset?

Any advise would be greatly appreciated.

Tille.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Machtelt Garrels ####@####.####
> Sent: Thursday, March 3, 2005 09:48 AM
> To: ####@####.####
> Subject: DocBook question 
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> Can anyone here help me with the following:
> 
> I'm writing a FAQ in DocBook XML, and I want the answer(s) to a question
> to be printed on the same page.
> I tried the advise that is explained here:
> http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/PageBreaking.html
> - -> soft page breaks are not supported yet (I use xsltproc and fop-0.20.5)
> - -> hard breaks with the code snippet and my own XSL stylesheet containing
> only this template and a reference to
> /usr/share/docbook-xsl-1.67.2/fo/docbook.xsl gives this error:
> 
> namespace error: Namespace prefix fo on block is not defined.
> 
> I also tried the keep-together method but it does not seem to work on
> qandaentry.
> 
> 
<snip>
> 
> Any advise would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Tille.


Have you tried 'keep-with-next="always"'?  I have had good luck using
this.  Well, at least FOP does not complain about it not being
implemented yet.

For example:

  <xsl:template match="instructions">
    <fo:block keep-with-next="always">Instructions</fo:block>
    <fo:block><xsl:apply-templates/></fo:block>
  </xsl:template>

As far as your namespace error, do you have
xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format" in your customization
layer?

Dave