Re: [XXE] Add a role attribute to a list after the conversion from Word to docbook5?

[Hussein Shafie]

Please note that this level of support is reserved to the customers of "XMLmind Word To XML", http://www.xmlmind.com/w2x/ , a product which is different from "XMLmind XML Editor".

Anyway we'll answer your questions to prove our good will.




On 04/25/2018 10:31 AM, Louise Prompers wrote:

You are a customer of "XMLmind XML Editor", which indeed comes with a free to use, fully functional, "Word To XML" add-on. However this does not mean that you'll have the same level of support as "XMLmind Word To XML" customers.

I am trying to add an ordered list with a custom role to a docbook xml
after conversion from a Word .docx. What I do is I apply a custom style
in Word (e.g. list-special) to the list, and follow the conversion
steps. I see that the "single page styled (X)HTML" generated seems to
get the style (as a p class="p-list-special"), so the problem is not in
the first step of the conversion.

That's right.

However, the conversion to docbook seems to ignore the style, even
though I added it to the MS-Word style to XML element map in the w2x
options file. Other paragraph styles seem to convert well enough, I
guess the problem is due to the fact that lists are treated a bit
differently as the XHTML paragraphs are not a list, rather paragraphs
where the numbers are incremented using CSS, and some sort of
transformation is used to make this into an ordered list.

It's simpler than what you think. The setup assistant of the "Word To XML" add-on () simply does not support mapping MS-Word styles to list and list items. It just supports mapping character and paragraph MS-Word styles to XML text spans and XML paragraphs.

Is there a way to apply such a custom style to list to add a role
attribute to the resulting list after the conversion to docbook5?

Sure. However this requires writing scripts by hand. See "Customizing the output of w2x, The general case", http://www.xmlmind.com/w2x/_distrib/doc/manual/index.html#general_customize_semantic_xml

I gave it a quick shot. (These are not production quality scripts.)



See attached, hand-written, SpecialList.xed
---
namespace "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";;
namespace html = "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";;
namespace g = "urn:x-mlmind:namespace:group";

for-each /html/body//p[get-class("p-SpecialList")] {
    set-element-name("li");
    remove-class("p-SpecialList");
    set-attribute("g:id", "SpecialList_item");
    set-attribute("g:container", "ol class='SpecialList'");
}

group();
---

See attached, hand-written, SpecialList.xslt
---
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
  xmlns:h="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";
  xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook";
  exclude-result-prefixes="h">

<xsl:import href="w2x:xslt/docbook5.xslt"/>

<xsl:template match="h:ol[@class = 'SpecialList']">
  <orderedlist role="SpecialList">
    <xsl:call-template name="processCommonAttributes"/>
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
  </orderedlist>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
---



---
-o docbook5
-pu edit.before.lists SpecialList.xed
-t SpecialList.xslt
---




namespace "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";;
namespace html = "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";;
namespace g = "urn:x-mlmind:namespace:group";

for-each /html/body//p[get-class("p-SpecialList")] {
    set-element-name("li");
    remove-class("p-SpecialList");
    set-attribute("g:id", "SpecialList_item");
    set-attribute("g:container", "ol class='SpecialList'");
}

group();

My custom list item MS-Word style is called "SpecialList" and I want the DocBook 5 orderedlist to have attribute role="SpecialList". You may use attached, hand-written, SpecialList_options.txt to give this a try: Simply save SpecialList_options.txt, SpecialList.xed and SpecialList.xslt in the same directory and use as an input attached SpecialList.docx. This should give you attached SpecialList.xml.

SpecialList.xslt
Description: application/xslt

-o docbook5 
-pu edit.before.lists SpecialList.xed  
-t SpecialList.xslt

SpecialList.docx
Description: MS-Word 2007 document

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><book xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"; version="5.0" xml:lang="en-US"><info><title>???</title><author><personname>hussein</personname></author><date remap="dcterms.created">2018-04-26T08:11:00Z</date><date remap="dcterms.modified">2018-04-26T08:18:00Z</date></info><chapter><title>Tests special lists</title><para>What follows is a <emphasis role="bold">special list</emphasis>:</para><orderedlist role="SpecialList"><listitem><para>First item.</para></listitem><listitem><para>Second item.</para></listitem><listitem><para>Third item.</para></listitem></orderedlist><para>What follows is a <emphasis>continuation</emphasis> special list:</para><orderedlist role="SpecialList"><listitem><para>Firstly.</para></listitem><listitem><para>Secondly.</para></listitem><listitem><para>Thirdly.</para></listitem><listitem><para>Finally.</para></listitem></orderedlist><para>End of test.</para></chapter></book>
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