Hi rangers...
I wonder whether someone can give me some help on applying a patch to
forrest (html-to-document.xsl) to allow for something like
<ul class='myul'>
...
</ul>
or
<ul id='myul'>
...
</ul>
together with some css applied to that element.
The CSS is no problem, I am now much more familiar with that (after
reading Andy Budd's) very good book about CSS-mastery...
My problem is XSL, since I have not yet the time to dive into XSL.
I changed the file html-to-document.xsl for the ul-element to allow for
the class (see below), the id is not tested but maybe of interest in the
future.
My questions are:
1. How can I avoid to make changes always in the installation of forrest?
Can I use a project-specific local html-to-document.xsl-file instead?
2. Is the way I have done it the preferable way?
Normally if writing code (python for me) I would prefere to write a
function since the core choose-function is repeated twice here.
3. In addition, since this problem will reappear for a lot of elements
again and again a more general solution could be better! Any hints?
4. As I have several of these changes and some improvements done here it
would be nice if I could provide these to the main trunk.
How should I proceed?
Actually we are using forrest 0.8 but I can easily add 0.9dev to my path.
Here is the change:
Adding an extra 'choose' let me allow for the class in ul...
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<xsl:template match="ul">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="name(..)='p'">
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><![CDATA[</p>]]></xsl:text>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="@class">
<ul>
<xsl:attribute name="class"><xsl:value-of
select="@class"/></xsl:attribute>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</ul>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<ul>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</ul>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><![CDATA[<p>]]></xsl:text>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="@class">
<ul>
<xsl:attribute name="class"><xsl:value-of
select="@class"/></xsl:attribute>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</ul>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<ul>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</ul>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
Many Thanks
Thomas
