Re: DocBook XSL help? (kafkascampi)

[Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>]

My understanding is that the xml:id tags control both chunking and the
TOC. Currently every heading that's in the TOC starts a new chunk.

My gut feeling is it would be easier to mofify the chunking the
"right" way by modifying the DocBook+WebHelp project than to kludge it
with post-processing. I got some feedback from the developer:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20980281/docbook-xsl-chunking/20987759

Another option is to modify the Velocity template that controls the
DocBook export from Confluence and generate a custom plug-in. That's
kind of a pain but it's a devil I already know. And that way any
future changes to DocBook+WebHelp would probably not break my build
process.

On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Chris Despopoulos
<despopoulos_chriss -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
> Well, rename the things that would normally chunk to something that won't?
> I think the chunking is determined in the TOC spec.  (I don't have the stuff
> in front of me right now, so I'm flying by instruments...)  Anyway, I bet if
> you removed most of the entries in that parameter (or comment them out),
> then you would not get chunking on those boundaries.  So after you wrap the
> PIs in something that will chunk, then remove the chunking you don't
> want????  Hey, I'm just guessing but this is how I'd try it if it was my
> problem.
>
> cud
>
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> Subject: Re: DocBook XSL help? (kafkascampi)
>
> But how would I get rid of all the unwanted chunks? I don't think I
> could just strip out the xml:id tags since I believe those are used
> for other purposes as well.
>
> On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 1:13 AM, Chris Despopoulos
> <despopoulos_chriss -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
>>
>> My guess would be that you'll not find anything in the provided XSL that
>> transforms a processing instruction into chunk.  So what I would do is first
>> run a transform that uses the processing instruction to wrap the content in
>> a sect.  Then (again, I'm only guessing) you could run that result straight
>> through the provided transform and get what you want.  You might need to add
>> IDs to your sects that you create, or do some other tweaks.  But I think
>> that is the tree I would bark up.
>>
>> cud
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Robert Lauriston
>> <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>wrote:
>>
>>> Can anyone point me to the part of this file that controls chunking?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://docbook4j.googlecode.com/svn-history/r4/trunk/docbook4j/src/main/resources/xsl/docbook/webhelp/xsl/webhelp-common.xsl
>>>
>>> I can't relate what I find in this doc to the code I see in that file:
>>>
>>> http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Chunking.html
>>>
>>> I want to modify the XSL so that it chunks at <?confluence type="page"
>>> ?> instead of <section xml:id= ...>.
>
>


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