Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: xtchunk.xsl - Navigation Images and xml editors

[Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>]

/ Bob Stayton <bobs@caldera.com> was heard to say:
| The HTML header and footer output is controlled by templates
| named 'header.navigation' and 'footer.navigation' which
| are in chunk-common.xsl.  You'll need to copy them to
| your customization file and modify them.
| I've reproduced footer.navigation
| here and marked the points where text is generated.
| That's where you will want to have it generate <img> tags
| instead.

No, I think you want to do this a different way. The header and footer
navigation templates call gentext.nav.*:

| change --->     <xsl:call-template name="gentext.nav.prev"/>
| change --->       <xsl:call-template name="gentext.nav.home"/>
| change --->     <xsl:call-template name="gentext.nav.next"/>
| change --->       <xsl:call-template name="gentext.nav.up"/>

precisely so that you can override *them* to change the navigation.

| You'll want to replace the gentext calls
| with literal <img> result elements
| For example, replace:
| 
|   <xsl:call-template name="gentext.nav.next"/>
| 
| with:
| 
|   <img src="images/next.jpg" >
|     <xsl:attribute name="alt">
|       <xsl:call-template name="gentext.nav.next"/>
|     </xsl:attribute>
|   </img>

No, what you want to do in your customization layer (IMHO) is this:

<xsl:template name="gentext.nav.next"/>
   <img src="images/next.jpg" alt="next"/>
</xsl:template>

This saves you the trouble of copying a large, complex template.

| Of course, an easier approach is to make a feature
| request that navigational icons be a parameter
| that you can set without modifying templates.    8^)
| Seems like a nice feature that others could use.

Uh, Bob.. :-)

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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