Hi Paul:
> My understanding is that the 'href' attribute of 'xsl:import' can't
> take a parameter, so I can't pass in something system-specific from
> the Makefile (which would have been clumsy but sufficient). Is there
> an XSL solution to this problem?
If you can send in something "system-specific" from the Makefile to the XSL,
then all you need to do is use that parameter you were intending for the
<xsl:import> and use instead in an <xsl:choose>. For example:
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$Machine = 'FreeBSD'>
<xsl:import ...... />
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$Machine = 'WinXP'>
<xsl:import ...... />
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:import ...... />
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
This might do the trick in your top-level custom stylesheet.
- Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul A. Hoadley" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 1:27 AM
Subject: [docbook-apps] Multiplatform processing from the same source
Hello,
This is not a DocBook-specific question. I have some DocBook XML
documents in a Subversion repository, and I want to be able to process
them on FreeBSD and WinXP/Cygwin machines. A problem arises because
the customisation layer needs to know where the DocBook XSL
stylesheets are. (Under Cygwin, the path is
"c:/cygwin/usr/local/share/xsl..." and under FreeBSD it is
"/usr/local/share/xsl...". I cannot rely on a path relative to the
customisation file, as it can be checked out of Subversion anywhere.)
My understanding is that the 'href' attribute of 'xsl:import' can't
take a parameter, so I can't pass in something system-specific from
the Makefile (which would have been clumsy but sufficient). Is there
an XSL solution to this problem? If not, has anyone solved this with
some pre-processing?
--
Paul.
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