- From: Paul Grosso <pgrosso@arbortext.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 14:50:23 -0600
- To: "Kay, Michael" <Michael.Kay@softwareag.com>, David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>, spec-prod@w3.org
At 19:56 2002 11 29 +0100, Kay, Michael wrote:
>And while on the subject, wouldn't it be nice if we had a recursive <div>
>element so that sections could be more easily promoted or demoted?
A decent editing tool would do such promotion and demotion for you
regardless of the DTD. One shouldn't have to corrupt the DTD to
make up for the failing of the tools.
(Okay, I'm biased.)
paul
>Michael Kay
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@nag.co.uk]
>> Sent: 29 November 2002 13:35
>> To: spec-prod@w3.org
>> Subject: html sections in compound documents.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> If one "logical" document is split up into several html pages
>> on (say) chapter boundaries, should each page be thought of
>> as a complete html document (in particular starting with
>> <h1>) or as part of the logical document so starting at
>> section level <h2> or <h3> depending on the section level at
>> which the document was "chunked"?
>>
>>
>>
>> I've normally preferred using <h1> etc.
>> The chapters and appendices of the MathML2 (and 1.01 and 1.0)
>> follow this style.
>>
>> While testing production based on the xmlspec slices.xsl
>> stylesheet I note that the generated sectioning level doesn't
>> change when slicing is turned on, so chapters use h2-h5
>> rather than h1-h4 as previously.
>>
>> The W3C manual of style doesn't give any guidance on this question.
>>
>>
>> It would be useful if the core xmlspec.xsl stylesheet could
>> support this style, currently I have added the following to
>> the mathml customistaion layer, which could replace all the
>> templates in xmlspec.xsl for
>> <xsl:template match="div2/head"> etc.
>> It relies on a global parameter $slice.depth which is set to
>> 1 if you are chunking on div1.
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>>
>> <!-- HTML HEADING DEPTH -->
>>
>> <xsl:template match="example/head">
>> <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
>> <xsl:choose>
>> <xsl:when test="$tabular.examples = 0">
>> <div class="exampleHead">
>> <xsl:text>Example: </xsl:text>
>> <xsl:apply-templates/>
>> </div>
>> </xsl:when>
>> <xsl:otherwise>
>> <xsl:variable name="depth"
>> select="count(ancestor::*[contains(name(),'div')])"/>
>> <xsl:variable name="h">
>> <xsl:choose>
>> <xsl:when test="$depth > $slice.depth">
>> <xsl:value-of select="$depth - $slice.depth"/>
>> </xsl:when>
>> <xsl:otherwise>
>> <xsl:value-of select="$depth"/>
>> </xsl:otherwise>
>> </xsl:choose>
>> </xsl:variable>
>> <xsl:element name="h{$h+1}">
>> <xsl:call-template name="anchor">
>> <xsl:with-param name="node" select=".."/>
>> <xsl:with-param name="conditional" select="0"/>
>> </xsl:call-template>
>>
>> <xsl:text>Example: </xsl:text>
>> <xsl:apply-templates/>
>> </xsl:element>
>> </xsl:otherwise>
>> </xsl:choose>
>> </xsl:template>
>>
>> <xsl:template match="*[contains(name(),'div')]/head">
>> <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
>> <xsl:variable name="depth"
>> select="count(ancestor::*[contains(name(),'div')])"/>
>> <xsl:variable name="h">
>> <xsl:choose>
>> <xsl:when test="$depth > $slice.depth">
>> <xsl:value-of select="$depth - $slice.depth"/>
>> </xsl:when>
>> <xsl:otherwise>
>> <xsl:value-of select="$depth"/>
>> </xsl:otherwise>
>> </xsl:choose>
>> </xsl:variable>
>> <xsl:element name="h{$h}">
>> <xsl:call-template name="anchor">
>> <xsl:with-param name="conditional" select="0"/>
>> <xsl:with-param name="node" select=".."/>
>> </xsl:call-template>
>> <xsl:apply-templates select=".." mode="divnum"/>
>> <xsl:apply-templates/>
>> <xsl:if test="parent::inform-div1"> (Non-Normative)</xsl:if>
>> </xsl:element>
>> </xsl:template>
>>
>>
>> <!-- END OF HTML HEADING DEPTH -->
>>
>>
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