<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><title>use.role.as.xrefstyle</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../reference.css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1"><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="DocBook XSL Stylesheets: Reference Documentation"><link rel="up" href="misc.html" title="Miscellaneous"><link rel="prev" href="use.svg.html" title="use.svg"><link rel="next" href="menuchoice.separator.html" title="menuchoice.separator"><link rel="copyright" href="copyright.html" title="License"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">use.role.as.xrefstyle</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="use.svg.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Miscellaneous</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="menuchoice.separator.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="refentry"><a name="use.role.as.xrefstyle"></a><div class="titlepage"></div> <div class="refnamediv"><h2><span class="refentrytitle">use.role.as.xrefstyle</span></h2><p> use.role.as.xrefstyle — Use <code class="sgmltag-attribute">role</code> attribute for <code class="sgmltag-attribute">xrefstyle</code> on <a href="http://docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/xref.html"><code class="sgmltag-element">xref</code></a>? </p></div> <div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2> <a name="use.role.as.xrefstyle.frag"></a><pre class="programlisting"> <xsl:param name="use.role.as.xrefstyle" select="1"></xsl:param> </pre> </div> <div class="refsection"><a name="idp5152656"></a><h2>Description</h2> <p>In DocBook documents that conform to a schema older than V4.3, this parameter allows <code class="sgmltag-attribute">role</code> to serve the purpose of specifying the cross reference style.</p> <p>If non-zero, the <code class="sgmltag-attribute">role</code> attribute on <a href="http://docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/xref.html"><code class="sgmltag-element">xref</code></a> will be used to select the cross reference style. In DocBook V4.3, the <code class="sgmltag-attribute">xrefstyle</code> attribute was added for this purpose. If the <code class="sgmltag-attribute">xrefstyle</code> attribute is present, <code class="sgmltag-attribute">role</code> will be ignored, regardless of the setting of this parameter.</p> </div> <div class="refsection"><a name="idp5162384"></a><h2>Example</h2> <p>The following small stylesheet shows how to configure the stylesheets to make use of the cross reference style:</p> <pre class="programlisting"><?xml version="1.0"?> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"> <xsl:import href="../xsl/html/docbook.xsl"/> <xsl:output method="html"/> <xsl:param name="local.l10n.xml" select="document('')"/> <l:i18n xmlns:l="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/xmlns/l10n/1.0"> <l:l10n xmlns:l="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/xmlns/l10n/1.0" language="en"> <l:context name="xref"> <l:template name="chapter" style="title" text="Chapter %n, %t"/> <l:template name="chapter" text="Chapter %n"/> </l:context> </l:l10n> </l:i18n> </xsl:stylesheet></pre> <p>With this stylesheet, the cross references in the following document:</p> <pre class="programlisting"><?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd"> <book id="book"><title>Book</title> <preface> <title>Preface</title> <para>Normal: <xref linkend="ch1"/>.</para> <para>Title: <xref xrefstyle="title" linkend="ch1"/>.</para> </preface> <chapter id="ch1"> <title>First Chapter</title> <para>Irrelevant.</para> </chapter> </book></pre> <p>will appear as:</p> <div class="informalexample"> <p>Normal: Chapter 1.</p> <p>Title: Chapter 1, <span class="emphasis"><em>First Chapter</em></span>.</p> </div> </div> </div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="use.svg.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="misc.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="menuchoice.separator.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">use.svg </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> menuchoice.separator</td></tr></table></div></body></html>