Re: Passing profiling conditions into transformation for DocBook

On 5/14/24 22:48, Jirka Kosek wrote:
> On 14.05.2024 18:19, Hussein Shafie wrote:
>> Please do not hesitate to explain what's wrong with the two above 
>> assumptions (the list of "Common Effectivity Attributes" and the 
>> "Custom profiling attribute") and may be, point us to more up-to-date 
>> reference documents. We'll be glad to fix bugs and/or improve the 
>> DocBook support of the "Easy Profiling" add-on 
>> (https://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/profiling/index.html).
> 
> I'm not saying that you did anything wrong. But two observations:
> 
> * Profiling is usually performed on other attributes than only on 
> "effectivity" attributes. Two most common examples are @status (you want 
> to filter our draft pieces of document before publishing) and @xml:lang 
> (some people store translations of document in a single file and need to 
> profile on language to get readable output in one language). So I would 
> expect that your profiling add-on would support profiling at least on 
> attributes supported by DocBook stylesheets (see 
> https://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/doc/html/profiling.html)

Thanks for the pointer. Consider this one fixed.



> 
> * It is very common to customize DocBook schema and add additional 
> profiling attributes (see e.g. 
> https://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/AddProfileAtt.html). So it would be 
> great if your add-on could support such scenarios as well.

Thanks again. Will carefully read this chapter.



> 
> My expectation was that any attribute could be used as you can specify 
> any attribute in .profiles file. And this seems to work in editor.
> So I was expecting these attributes to be passed to transformation as 
> well. I can imagine that you can either do it by passing all configured 
> attributes in .profiles in parameters named profile.xxx where xxx is 
> attribute name -- this currently works only for predefined set of 
> effectivity attributes.

Sounds very reasonable and consistent with what's explained in 
https://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/AddProfileAtt.html. Will almost 
certainly do this.



> 
> Or alternatively if you don't want to make this too DocBook specific it 
> would be nice if in .profiles you could specify name of XSLT parameter 
> that would be used for passing value when document is being converted.

Well, the  "Easy Profiling" add-on tries to hide this kind of 
technicalities. But no worries, above suggestion will almost certainly 
be implemented.




> 
> At least I know that I have to use normal XSLT parameters for now as we 
> are using custom profiling attributes.
> 

Yes, for now, but this will change in next version of XXE.

Thank you very much for all these insights!



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