passing param to xslt in dita ot

[dledle]

Hi all,

Im trying to use a custom plugin for pdf. I've been following Dita for Print book. But nothing I found is helping with this issue.
I want to have a footer that displays security clearance level. I would like this specified as a parameter in the command line.
So adding -Dseclevel=internal will give me "this document is for internal use". This text is in a localization file en.xml.
-Dseclevel=restricted will give me "this document is restricted" etc etc.

As of right now, the only way it seems to work is if I edit the base build.xml file directly, which is what I do not want.
I would need to add this parameter

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<param name="seclevel" expression="${seclevel}" if="seclevel"/>

into
File:
\dita-ot-4.2.4\plugins\org.dita.pdf2\build.xml
under

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<target name="transform.topic2fo.main">
<pipeline>
<xslt>
[b]<custom parameter here>[/b]

I want to avoid this. I thought by having an insertParameters file with the feature extension in the plugin would work but no.

Here is my setup in the custom plugin folder
command line:

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dita -imap.ditamap -f print-pdf -Dseclevel=restricted -d -l log.xml -v

plugin:

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<plugin id="auto_pdf" >
	<require plugin="org.dita.pdf2"/>
	<transtype name="print-pdf" extends="pdf" desc="PDF on A4 paper"/>
	<feature extension="dita.transtype.print" value="print-pdf"/>
	<feature extension="ant.import" file="integrator.xml"/>
	
	<feature extension="dita.conductor.pdf2.param" file="insertParameters.xml"/>
</plugin>

integrator:

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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<project>
  <target name="dita2print-pdf"
       depends="dita2print-pdf.init,
                dita2pdf2">
                </target>
  <target name="dita2print-pdf.init">
    <property name="customization.dir"
          location="${dita.plugin.auto_pdf.dir}/cfg"/>
       
  </target>
</project>

insertParameters.xml

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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<dummy>
	<param name="seclevel" expression="${seclevel}" if="seclevel"/>
</dummy>

I add more details below (which I will append to my parent post)
In my plugin folder, I have my attr and my xsl.
cfg > common
> fo > attrs
> xsl

Looking at my fo > xsl folder:
I have a custom.xsl

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
                xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"
                version="2.0">
                
  <xsl:import href="../layout-masters.xsl"/>
  
  <xsl:import href="commons.xsl"/>
  <xsl:import href="root-processing.xsl"/>
  <xsl:import href="static-content.xsl"/>
  <xsl:import href="front-matter.xsl"/>
  <xsl:import href="topic.xsl"/>
  <xsl:import href="tables.xsl"/>

</xsl:stylesheet>

static-content.xsl is where I have my footer.
within it:

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<fo:table-cell text-align="center">
                            <fo:block font-size="8pt" font-weight="bold" color="black">
                                <xsl:choose>
                                    <xsl:when test="$seclevel">
                                        <xsl:call-template name="getVariable">
                                            <xsl:with-param name="id" select="concat('securitylevel ', $seclevel)"/>
                                        </xsl:call-template>
                                    </xsl:when>
                                    <xsl:otherwise>
                                        <xsl:with-param name="id" select="'securitylevel default'"/>
                                    </xsl:otherwise>
                                </xsl:choose>
                            </fo:block>
                        </fo:table-cell>

I use the getVariable to look up the value I have in an en.xml file.

[julien_lacour]

Hello,

Starting from your plugin I modified it to use <feature extension="dita.xsl.xslfo" file="custom.xsl"/> instead of the additional Ant target,

org.dita.pdf2.custom.zip

I declared <xsl:param name="seclevel"/> in the XSL and log it using <xsl:message>, with this plugin you should obtain the following console log:

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dita -v -f print-pdf -i flowers.ditamap -o out/print-pdf -Dseclevel=restricted

==> Build FO
...
SECURITY=restricted

I also add all templates used by the pdf2 plugin to create footers, you can start from these templates to create your own.

Regards,
Julien

[dledle]

Hi Julien, thanks for the suggestion. But after trying a few more things I still couldn't get it to work.
I tried creating another xsl file containing only the param. Then using <feature extension="dita.xsl.xslfo" file="pathto param2xlsfo.xsl"/>. No luck there.

I add more details below (which I will append to my parent post)
In my plugin folder, I have my attr and my xsl.
cfg > common
> fo > attrs
> xsl

Looking at my fo > xsl folder:
I have a custom.xsl

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
                xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"
                version="2.0">
                
  <xsl:import href="../layout-masters.xsl"/>
  
  <xsl:import href="commons.xsl"/>
  <xsl:import href="root-processing.xsl"/>
  <xsl:import href="static-content.xsl"/>
  <xsl:import href="front-matter.xsl"/>
  <xsl:import href="topic.xsl"/>
  <xsl:import href="tables.xsl"/>

</xsl:stylesheet>

static-content.xsl is where I have my footer.
within it:

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<fo:table-cell text-align="center">
                            <fo:block font-size="8pt" font-weight="bold" color="black">
                                <xsl:choose>
                                    <xsl:when test="$seclevel">
                                        <xsl:call-template name="getVariable">
                                            <xsl:with-param name="id" select="concat('securitylevel ', $seclevel)"/>
                                        </xsl:call-template>
                                    </xsl:when>
                                    <xsl:otherwise>
                                        <xsl:with-param name="id" select="'securitylevel default'"/>
                                    </xsl:otherwise>
                                </xsl:choose>
                            </fo:block>
                        </fo:table-cell>

I use the getVariable to look up the value I have in an en.xml file.

[julien_lacour]

Hello,

I modified my plugin to use more XSL stylesheet:

org.dita.pdf2.custom.zip

If you test it you will see that the property is used and the footer did contain the text.

Inside the plugin I've set <feature extension="dita.xsl.xslfo" file="custom.xsl"/> with the content you gave me and in static-content.xsl I've declared the parameter at the beginning of the stylesheet, the seclevel value must appear in the console and in the output.

Regards,
Julien