Re: [docbook-apps] fixing framemaker's mistakes on alignment.

["Bob Stayton" <bobs at sagehill dot net>]

Your template should indeed return a string.  You might try temporarily
putting in some xsl:message elements to test the value of your parameters
and such.  That will tell you if your template is being called and with what
values.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net


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Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 3:53 PM
Subject: [docbook-apps] fixing framemaker's mistakes on alignment.


> hello all. I'm attempting to fix the framemaker problem of giving things
the
> alignment of "aleft" "acenter" and "aright"
>
> ==============================
> So My plan is everywhere that graphics.xsl is trying to assign the
attribute
> "align" a value:
>
> <xsl:attribute name="align">
> <xsl:choose>
>   <xsl:when test="@align = 'center'">middle</xsl:when>
>   <xsl:otherwise>
>        <xsl:value-of select="@align"/>
>   </xsl:otherwise>
> </xsl:choose>
> </xsl:attribute>
>
> =========================
> I'm going to call my function instead:
>
> <xsl:attribute name="align">
>     <xsl:call-template name="fixalign">
>      <xsl:with-param name="alignment" select="@align"/>
>     </xsl:call-template>
> </xsl:attribute>
>
> ============================
> My function is this:
>
> <xsl:template name="fixalign">
> <xsl:param name="alignment"/>
>    <xsl:choose>
>       <xsl:when test="$alignment = 'center'">middle</xsl:when>
> <xsl:when test="$alignment = 'acenter'">center</xsl:when>
> <xsl:when test="$alignment = 'aleft'">left</xsl:when>
> <xsl:when test="$alignment = 'aright'">right</xsl:when>
> <xsl:otherwise>
>         <xsl:value-of select="$alignment"/>
>       </xsl:otherwise>
>     </xsl:choose>
> </xsl:template>
>
> ================
> but I keep getting a empty string back.. Why - I thought the template
would
> return whatever strings it outputs.
>
> Help please?
>
> Thanks!
>
> LN
>
>