I am a bit confused as to how the cover image is rendered in PDF with the Dita 1.2 provided with Oxygen.
Before there was a call to dita2fo-shell.xsl in the rendering process, which had a template called "place-cover-art". This does not seem to be called at all in the Oxygen rendering process (as seen partly by the fact that there is a placeholder text in that template which I don't get in my output). I even tried renaming the dita2fo-shell.xsl to see if it would break the transformation, but it had no effect. Here's the template from that file:
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<xsl:template name="place-cover-art">
<fo:block margin-top="2pc" font-family="Helvetica" border-style="dashed" border-color="black" border-width="thin" padding="6pt">
<fo:block font-size="12pt" line-height="100%" margin-top="12pc" margin-bottom="12pc" text-align="center">
<fo:inline color="purple" font-weight="bold">[cover art/text goes here]</fo:inline>
</fo:block>
</fo:block>
</xsl:template>
I would also like to know if there is a new standard way to place cover images on the front page by using an element in the bookmap. I.e. if I get an answer to the above question I could always insert a graphic there in the template to place a static cover image. But in the end I really need to be able to use different cover images for different publications, so the reference should be made e.g. in the bookmap, so it can be different for different publications. And then the template could render that element. Early on there was a dita topic type called bkinfo that had elements for bkcover and fig elements. But that is gone now, so is there another mechanism for this to use now?
Regards,
Anders