i figured i'd explain this once in its entirety to find out just what part of this i'm missing.
i want to use red hat's "xmlto" utility and FOP to process docbook into PDF. if you're familiar with xmlto (or even if you're not), the basic invocation is $ xmlto {fo,ps,dvi,...} -m frag1 -m frag2 ... dbfile.xml the "-m" fragments represent stylesheet fragments which will automatically be added to a final stylesheet as "include"s, so you don't have to build your own all-encompassing stylesheet. in a nutshell, "xmlto" will automatically select the appropriate fundamental stylesheet, and then create a temporary with references to all of your fragments being <xsl:include>d. this just takes all the work off of you. it also means that any overrides you'd like to add must be able to be added as official stylesheet fragments, which will override "param"s or attribute-sets. as an example, consider the following stylesheet fragment: ------------------------------------ <?xml version='1.0'?> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format" version='1.0'> <!-- This sets the extension for HTML files to ".html". --> <!-- (The stylesheet's default for XHTML files is ".xhtm".) --> <xsl:param name="html.ext" select="'.html'"/> <!-- This sets the filename based on the ID. --> <xsl:param name="use.id.as.filename" select="'1'"/> </xsl:stylesheet> ------------------------------------ so i can override any property which is set by an xsl:param. if you look at norm walsh's FO Parameter Reference at: http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/doc/fo/index.html in Section XVII, there is a parameter for hyphenate -- true or false. so i can define whether i want hyphenation or not with a single stylesheet fragment. but there's no parameter which specifies hyphenation *country* as far as i can see. so, at the moment, i don't see how to use this technique to specify that i want my hyphenation country to be "en_GB" using this technique. am i making any sense here? rday --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]