----- Original Message -----
From: "Sam Steingold" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 12:00 PM
Subject: [docbook-apps] Re: page-specific footer for chunked output
> > * Bob Stayton <> [2005-02-03 00:10:25 -0800]:
> >
> > Your "bookinfo/subtitle" path is taken relative to the current context
> > node, which is the current chunk being processed.
> > That should probably be "//bookinfo/subtitle".
>
> why not "/book/bookinfo/subtitle"?
Indeed, why not. That works too, and is more precise.
> also, this strips out all the formating I have in the subtitle.
> e.g., "<subtitle>foo <emphasis>bar</emphasis> baz</subtitle>"
> is printed by
>
> <xsl:if test="//bookinfo"><div class="bookinfo">
> <hr width="100%"/><table width="100%">
> <th><td align="left"><xsl:value-of select="//bookinfo/subtitle"/></td>
> <td align="right"><xsl:value-of select="//bookinfo/date"/></td></th>
> </table></div></xsl:if>
>
> as "<td>foo bar baz</td>" and not "<td>foo <em>bar</em> baz</td>"
> why?
That's because <xsl:value-of> will return the string value of a node, which
means just the text. You want to apply-templates instead, so the <emphasis>
is processed by its template too. Just replace:
<xsl:value-of select="/book/bookinfo/subtitle"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="/book/bookinfo/subtitle"/>
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
