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Subject: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: How to select <imageobject> alternative in <mediaobject>?
I agree that role is the best attribute for the author specifying which object to use for which output. I don't think that simply 'html' and 'fo' will be able to satisfy every condition, though. For example, we support a wide variety of platforms and many of our UNIX users use an X Windows emulator to run our application from their Windows desktop. Using the audioobject would not work, simply because sound doesn't work in that configuration. However, we may want to use an audioobject for our Windows users. There are probably several other examples. (e.g. different image support between XEP and FOP) I think that if you add a "preferred.mediaobject.role" parameter, we can modify the selection algorithm as follows: 1) Look for an object with "@role = $preferred.mediaobject.role" 2) Look for an object where the role matches the output (html or fo) 3) Pick the first object with either role="all" or no role attribute 4) Look for a textobject Jeff Beal -----Original Message----- From: Bob Stayton [mailto:bobs@caldera.com] Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 11:25 PM To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: How to select <imageobject> alternative in <mediaobject>? The mediaobject element can contain more than one imageobject element, with the intent being to use one from the set for a given output. But there currently isn't an easy way of designating this particular imageobject for HTML output and that one for FO output. I suggested in a previous message that role="html" or role="fo" in each imageobject could be used, with a stylesheet customization to act on the role value. I'm wondering if this method would be appropriate as a standard feature of the stylesheets? That is, should the stylesheets designate the role attribute as the method to select which imageobject to use? Let me be clear that this is not a change to the DTD, but just a convention to be used with Norm's XSL stylesheets. There doesn't seem to be another available attribute that would be appropriate. And I'm guessing that any profiling would probably be done on the role attribute in mediaobject, rather than the individual imageobjects within it. But I'd like to hear what others think. Would this be useful? Is there a better way to do it? Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 The SCO Group fax: (831) 429-1887 email: bobs@sco.com
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