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Re: NW-DBK2FO-XSLTs 1.60.1: titlepage doesn't workanymore
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/ Tobias Reif <tobiasreif at pinkjuice dot com> was heard to say:
|> The RELEASE-NOTES.html file emphasize that this release
|> included significant changes to the titlepage mechanism.
|
| I see; sorry for not having read it. But I'm not sure how that helps me.
|
| In the past you strongly encouraged users (people who customize the
| styles) to use the titlepage mechanism. (actually Norm told me to)
Yes. And it's almost always the case that upgrading the stylesheets
requires no changes to the titlepage mechanism. But in the 1.60
release I reworked the titlepage stuff. I called it out specifically
in the release notes (which I'm trying to keep accurate and
up-to-date) so that you'd know what was coming.
| Now I'm not sure if I can use it at all. The file is over 1000 lines
| of code. To customize styles, I need to edit lines which can be
| anywhere in that file. Now if I upgrade the XSLT package, how am I
| supposed to deal with fundamental changes in the format of
| titlepage.templates.xml?
They don't happen very often, and I'm pretty sure everything you could
do in the old format you can do in the new format.
| Making a new copy from the new package and then manually checking what
| my style customizations were would take a lot of time, and I could
| miss styles.
I'll try not to do it very often :-)
Be seeing you,
norm
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