Re: [xsl] TOC indents in XHTML?

[David Carlisle <davidc at nag dot co dot uk>]

] Currently, I have a template for the indents that looks like this:
] 
]   <xsl:template name="toc-indent">
]     <xsl:variable name="level" select="count(ancestor::part)"/>
]     <xsl:choose>
]       <xsl:when test="$level=0"><xsl:text
] disable-output-escaping="yes"></xsl:text></xsl:when>
]       <xsl:when test="$level=1"><xsl:text
] disable-output-escaping="yes">&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;</xsl:text></xsl:when>
]       <xsl:when test="$level=2"><xsl:text
] disable-output-escaping="yes">&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;</xsl:
] text></xsl:when>
]       <xsl:when test="$level=3"><xsl:text
] disable-output-escaping="yes">&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;n
] bsp;&amp;nbsp;</xsl:text></xsl:when>
]       <xsl:when test="$level=4"><xsl:text
] disable-output-escaping="yes">&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;n
] bsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;</xsl:text></xsl:when>
]       <xsl:when test="$level=5"><xsl:text
] disable-output-escaping="yes">&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;n
] bsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;</xsl:text></xsl:when>
]       <xsl:otherwise><xsl:text
] disable-output-escaping="yes">&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;n
] bsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;</xsl:text></xsl:other
] wise>
]     </xsl:choose>
]   </xsl:template>
] 
] It works, but it's not smart and far from beautiful. There is a better way
] to do it, isn't it? :-)


it would probably be better not to use non breaking space and just
indent with nested lists and css styling, but if you want to use nbsp

looking at the faq or archives for this list will show that
]  <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&amp;nbsp;
is not the recommended way of getting a non breaking space.
just <xsl:text>&#160;</xsl:text>
is all you need.

you just want one of those for each ancestor part element, so that's

<xsl:template name="toc-indent">
  <xsl:for-each select="ancestor::part">&#160;</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

David

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