Adding title to PDF output

[yoyopoc]

Hi,
Using Docbook5 book and currently have section title showing in PDF header for pages, trying to find a way of adding the <part> title to all pages. I'm a complete newbie but a good learner:)

[Radu]

Hi,

You need good knowledge of XSLT and XPath in order to make customizations in the Docbook stylesheets.

Also this manual is a very good resource:
http://sagehill.net/docbookxsl/CustomizingPart.html

I'll try to give you some hints, but it's also a good idea to register and ask customization questions on the Docbook Apps users list which is very active.
We are using DITA for our user manual so I might not give you the best possible way.

So in the stylesheet:

OXYGEN_INSTALL_DIR/frameworks/docbook/xsl/fo/pagesetup.xsl

there is an XSLT template called header.table which is used to render the content in the header which gets repeated on each page.

This template calls a template called header.content which has in it code like:

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 <xsl:when test="($sequence='odd' or $sequence='even') and $position='center'">

        <xsl:if test="$pageclass != 'titlepage'">

          <xsl:choose>

            <xsl:when test="ancestor::d:book and ($double.sided != 0)">

              <fo:retrieve-marker retrieve-class-name="section.head.marker"

                                  retrieve-position="first-including-carryover"

                                  retrieve-boundary="page-sequence"/>

            </xsl:when>

            <xsl:otherwise>

              <xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="titleabbrev.markup"/>

            </xsl:otherwise>

          </xsl:choose>

        </xsl:if>

      </xsl:when>

That apply templates then matches templates located in the stylesheet:
OXYGEN_INSTALL_DIR/frameworks/docbook/xsl/common/titles.xsl

You can use our XSLT debugger to see from which location in the stylesheet the header content is computed in the output XSL-FO and maybe attempt some modifications.

Regards,
Radu