Re: Creating Styles for an Attribute

Hi Beth,

With XSLT, you can match on just the attribute.

For example:

<xsl:template match=“@doc”>…..</xsl:template>

You may need to select different actions (for example if the element is a block vs. an inline element), but you probably won’t need to duplicate the code for every element.

You can also match multiple elements with the same match attribute, for example:

<xsl:template match=“para[@doc=‘FAT’] | row[@doc=‘FAT']”/>…</xsl:template>

I hope that helps,
Dick Hamilton
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> On Sep 10, 2021, at 13:19, Beth Van Wie <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
>  
> I’m trying to customize the Docbook stylesheets so my profiling attributes will produce colored text when I build the document without profiling. I currently have stylesheets that pull out the profiled information as needed, and I want to create a new stylesheet that uses the same attributes, does not profile, and colors the profiled sections.
>  
> I currently use the attribute doc=”” to profile my documents.
>  
> For example:
>  
> <para doc=”FAT”> </para>
> <step doc=”SAT”> </step>
>  
> I commonly profile the following elements: para, row, step, procedure, section, table, figure, lists (different kinds of lists), and others.
>  
> I was able to write a stylesheet that would do this for a para element, and for a para element inside a step element, but the way I am doing it, I will have to write a new template for each element. Is there a way I can write one template to cover every time I use doc=””?
>  
> Thank you,
>  
> Beth
>  
>  
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