$Id: lib.xweb 384406 2005-01-31 00:11:27Z raabe $ DocBook Open Repository Team 1999 2000 2001 2002 Norman Walsh This is technical reference documentation for the DocBook XSL Stylesheets; it documents (some of) the parameters, templates, and other elements of the stylesheets. This is not intended to be user documentation. It is provided for developers writing customization layers for the stylesheets, and for anyone who's interested in how it works. Although I am trying to be thorough, this documentation is known to be incomplete. Don't forget to read the source, too :-) dot.count Returns the number of . characters in a string copy-string Returns count copies of a string string.subst Substitute one text string for another in a string The string.subst template replaces all occurances of target in string with replacement and returns the result. xpointer.idref Extract IDREF from an XPointer The xpointer.idref template returns the ID portion of an XPointer which is a pointer to an ID within the current document, or the empty string if it is not. In other words, xpointer.idref returns foo when passed either #foo or #xpointer(id('foo')), otherwise it returns the empty string. http://... length-magnitude Return the unqualified dimension from a length specification The length-magnitude template returns the unqualified length ("20" for "20pt") from a dimension. length-units Return the units from a length specification The length-units template returns the units ("pt" for "20pt") from a length. If no units are supplied on the length, the defauilt.units are returned. length-spec Return a fully qualified length specification The length-spec template returns the qualified length from a dimension. If an unqualified length is given, the default.units will be added to it. Unrecognized unit of measure: . length-in-points Returns the size, in points, of a specified length The length-in-points template converts a length specification to points and returns that value as an unqualified number. There is no way for the template to infer the size of an em. It relies on the default em.size which is initially 10 (for 10pt). Similarly, converting pixesl to points relies on the pixels.per.inch parameter which is initially 90. Unrecognized unit of measure: . pi-attribute Extract a pseudo-attribute from a PI The pi-attribute template extracts a pseudo-attribute from a processing instruction. For example, given the PI <?foo bar="1" baz='red'?>, ]]> will return red. This template returns the first matching attribute that it finds. Presented with processing instructions that contain badly formed pseudo-attributes (missing or unbalanced quotes, for example), the template may silently return erroneous results. filename 1 lookup.key Retrieve the value associated with a particular key in a table Given a table of space-delimited key/value pairs, the lookup.key template extracts the value associated with a particular key. xpath.location Calculate the XPath child-sequence to the current node The xpath.location template calculates the absolute path from the root of the tree to the current element node. / / comment-escape-string Prepare a string for inclusion in an XML comment The comment-escape-string template returns a string that has been transformed so that it can safely be output as an XML comment. Internal occurrences of "--" will be replaced with "- -" and a leading and/or trailing space will be added to the string, if necessary. comment-escape-string.recursive Internal function used by comment-escape-string The comment-escape-string.recursive template is used by comment-escape-string. These functions manipulate relative URI references. The following assumptions must hold true: All URIs are relative. No URI contains the ../ sequence which would effectively move up the hierarchy. If these assumptions do not hold, the results are unpredictable. count.uri.path.depth Count the number of path components in a relative URI This function counts the number of path components in a relative URI. trim.common.uri.paths Trim common leading path components from a relative URI This function trims common leading path components from a relative URI. The lib.xsl stylesheet is just a wrapper around these functions.