How to declare a variable

[Boreas]

Hello,

We have two types of documents to generate, one that requires chapter numbering, and the other requires no numbering. I was able to create a condition in the custom.xsl file to generate the document with or without numbering base on the book title. Obviously putting a condition on a book title does not work since are documents don't all have the same name.

I tried using <xsl:when test="($otherprops='number')">
But I get an error message saying that Variable otherprops is undeclared. How and where can I declare this variable? Or is there another variable I should be using. This variable needs to be associated to the ditamap.

Kind regards
Carole



Here is the code I used.

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[code]<xsl:template match="*" mode="getTitle">

        <xsl:variable name="topic" select="ancestor-or-self::*[contains(@class, ' topic/topic ')][1]" />

        <xsl:variable name="id" select="$topic/@id" />

        <xsl:variable name="mapTopics" select="key('map-id', $id)" />

        <fo:inline>

            <xsl:choose>

               [b] <xsl:when 

test="($bookTitle='number')">[/b]
<xsl:for-each select="$mapTopics[1]">
<xsl:choose>
<!--xsl:when test="parent::opentopic:map"/-->
<xsl:when test="ancestor-or-self::*[contains(@class, ' bookmap/frontmatter ') or contains(@class, ' bookmap/backmatter ')]" />
<xsl:when test="ancestor-or-self::*[contains(@class, ' bookmap/appendix ')]">
<xsl:number count="*[contains(@class, ' map/topicref ')] [ancestor-or-self::*[contains(@class, ' bookmap/appendix ')]]" format="A.1.1" level="multiple" />
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:number count="*[contains(@class, ' map/topicref ')] [not(ancestor-or-self::*[contains(@class, ' bookmap/frontmatter ')])]" format="1.1" level="multiple" />
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</fo:inline>
<xsl:text> </xsl:text>
<xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:template>
[/code]

[Radu]

Hi Carole,

So how exactly did you mark the bookmap? Did you set the @otherprops attribute on the root element or on the title?
You should have use instead the @outputclass attribute because profiling attributes, like @otherprops usually get removed in the filtering stage.
And in the XSLT you could have done stuff like:

<xsl:when test="//*[contains(@class, 'topic/title')][@outputclass='testValue']">

Or you could have used the <data> DITA element in the metadata section like:

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.......

<map title="Growing Flowers">

  <topicmeta>

    <data name="chapterNumbering" value="yes"/>

  </topicmeta>



.........

and again match it from the XSLT code using an XPath expression.

Regards,
Radu

[Boreas]

Hello,
I am still unable to generate the document and I think it is because I don't quite get all the connexions between all the files, and I obviously have no skills in code writing. Thanks for being patient with me.

In the dita map I added

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<othermeta name="ChapterNumbering" content="yes"/>

The <data> attribute did not seem to be recognised.

In the commons.xsl file , under

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<xsl:template match="*[contains(@class, ' topic/othermeta ')]">

I added

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<xsl:when test="//*[contains(@class, 'topic/title')][@othermeta='testValue']">

I was not sure the code was ok, nor did I palce it in the proper file.

In the custom.xsl file I added

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 <xsl:when test="($othermeta='yes')">

thanks again for your help

[Radu]

Hi Carole,

Here's my suggestion:

1) You leave the commons.xsl as it is, without any changes.
2) In the custom.xsl you use this construct:

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<xsl:when test="//othermeta[@name="ChapterNumbering"][@content="yes"]">

Regards,
Radu

[Boreas]

Beautifull! thanks!

the only change I made was for the quotes. Apparently oXygen does not like nested double quotes

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<xsl:when test="//othermeta[@name='ChapterNumbering'][@content='yes']">

thank you for your precious help. Without your help (and the help of the rest of the team) , I would not had been able to do half the customisation I needed. You answer fast, answers are complete and most of all, you are patient!

Carole

[Radu]

Hi Carole,

You were right about the quotes, whenever you already have double quotes around an attribute value, you must use single quotes inside it. The XML specification does not allow nesting double quoted.
And thanks for the kind words.

Regards,
Radu