It looks like you are missing a "$" in front of "node" in
the test expression. So it is looking for an element
named node instead of a parameter of that name.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
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Subject: [docbook-apps] Identify first <section>?
> I hope someone can help. I don't seem to be able to identify whether my
> <section> is the first child of <chapter> or not...
>
> Docbook document is of the form:
>
> <book>
> <chapter>
> <chapterinfo>...</>
> <section role="L1">...</>
> <section role="L2">...</>
> <section role="L1">...</>
> </chapter>
> </book>
>
> When the FO stylesheet finds the first <section> within a <chapter> (ie.
> line 4 above), I want to force a new odd page. I'm trying to do this using
> a method outlined in:
> http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200211/msg00135.html
>
> In my compiled titlepage specification file I have:
>
> <t:titlepage t:element="section" t:wrapper="fo:block">
> ...
> <t:titlepage-before side="recto">
> <xsl:param name="node" select="."/>
> <xsl:if test="not(node/preceding-sibling::section)">
> <fo:block break-before="page"/>
> <fo:block font-size="14pt" font-family="verdana"
> font-color="red">DEBUG:</fo:block>
> </xsl:if>
> </t:titlepage-before>
>
> The <xsl:if test="not(node/preceding-sibling::section)"> doesn't seem to
> pick up what I'm after. Any suggestions?
>
> Mart
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