Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: XSL-Style: bibliography - abstract

[Bob Stayton <bobs at caldera dot com>]

On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 07:41:01AM +0100, Stephan Wiesner wrote:
> Good Morning list,
> I would like to expand my bibliography with short texts to the books.
> <abstract> is an element that can be used for this, like:
>  <biblioentry id="biblioDocBook">
>   <abbrev>DocBook</abbrev>
>   <title>DocBook: The Definitive Guide</title>
> 
>   <abstract><para>This book explains it all.</para></abstract>
> 
>   <author><firstname>Norman</firstname><surname>Walsh</surname></author>
>  
> <author><firstname>Leonard</firstname><surname>Muellner</surname></autho
> r>
>   <isbn>156592-580-7</isbn>
>   <publisher>
>     <publishername>O'Reilly and Associates</publishername>
>     <address>
>       <country>USA</country>
>     </address>
>   </publisher>
>  </biblioentry> 
> 
> This is just omited by the style. Surely something I could include in my
> personal adaption of the style, but I would think this to be a feature
> used by more than just me?

Actually, the abstract does appear in the PDF output.
In the HTML output, the stylesheet actively suppresses
abstract, using this template from html/biblio.xsl:

<xsl:template match="abstract" mode="bibliography.mode">
  <!-- suppressed -->
</xsl:template>

Stylesheet author preference, I guess.
You'll need to override this template to get
the abstract into HTML output.

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