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Errata for DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide
Fourth Edition

 

  • In Chapter 1, Introduction, section "Online resources for finding solutions to problems" (page 4), the email address to subscribe to the docbook-apps mailing list is now
  • In Chapter 1, Introduction, section "Online resources for finding solutions to problems" (page 4), the IRC channel has been changed. The new channel is irc://irc.freenode.net#docbook.
  • In Chapter 3, Getting the tools working, section "Validation" (page 13), the second sentence of the third paragraph should read "For example, the libxml2 package that is required for xsltproc includes a program called xmllint ...".
  • In Chapter 3, Getting the tools working, sections titled "Installing Xalan" (page 22) and "Using Xalan" (page 24), the name of the Java extensions file for Xalan has been changed from xalan25.jar to xalan27.jar.
  • In Chapter 9, Customization methods, section "Attribute sets" (page 104), the last example attribute-set describes text-align as a new attribute. But it already appears in the stock attribute-set described earlier (it was added there in the stylesheet since the 3rd edition). So the last example needs a different attribute such as color to serve as a "new" attribute.
  • In Chapter 10, General customizations, section titled "Formal title customization" (page 138), the line in the example with mode="label.markup" is missing its closing slash. It should be: 
    <xsl:apply-templates select="$object" mode="label.markup"/>
  • In Chapter 11, Titlepage customization, section titled "Add to customization layer" (page 145), the second sentence in the first paragraph should say xsl:import rather than xsl:include.
  • In Chapter 13, Print customizations, section titled "Styling print TOC entries" (page 208), the content of the <xsl:attribute name="font-weight"> should be wrapped in an xsl:choose statement.
  • In Chapter 13, Print customizations, section titled "Changing header or footer styles" (page 219), the Example 13.14 has a </xsl:choose> where it should have a</xsl:otherwise> near the end of the example.
  • In Chapter 13, Print customizations, section titled "XEP last page extension" (page 224), the example in step 3 should say rx:page-number-citation-last rather than rx:last-page-number-citation.
  • In Chapter 23, Modular DocBook files, section titled "Using modified id values" (page 381), the third <xsl:when> statement in the example should contain: 
    <xsl:value-of select="concat($object/@xml:id, $preceding.xid)"/>
  • In Chapter 25, Other output forms, section titled "XHTML using xsltproc" (page 408), the third bullet item should read "The html element includes an XHTML namespace declaration".
  • In Chapter 27, Program listings, section titled "Syntax highlighting" (page 451), the example xsl:template elements should have mode="xslthl" attributes.
  • In Chapter 28, Q and A sets, section titled "Q and A formatting" (page 456), the question element in the example should be <question><para>Left button</para></question> (add the para element).
  • In Chapter 30, Tables, section titled "Row background color" (page 486) , the <xsl:if> statement in the example is missing a closing double quote character. It should be: 
     <xsl:if test="ancestor::table/@tabstyle = 'striped'">