[daisy] Auto TOC for a document?

[Vincent Mouton]

> 
> 
> Hi
> Many pages created in our Daisy site are quite big, and have multiple
> sections. Sometimes, its a pain to search for the relevant section. Is
> there
> a way a TOC can be automatically included, based on the h1, h2 and h3
> headers?

Shiva,

You could accomplish this through XSLT (i.e. in the skin).

Pretty rough, but you could loop through all tags at the first level inside
a part, and check for h1, h2, h3, ... tags

<!-- UNTESTED -->
<!-- This it the TOC -->

<ul>
<xsl:for-each select="d:parts/d:part[@name =
'PART_NAME_TO_DEFINE']/html/body/*[name() = 'h1' or name() = 'h2' or name()
= 'h2']">

	<li><a href="#{name()}_{position()}"><xsl:apply-templates
/></a></li>

</xsl:for-each>
</ul>


<!-- 	
	This is the actual content rendering
	You repeat this principle for all tags, to render the content, and
when encountering a heading, add an id="" attribute to it
-->

<xsl:for-each select="d:parts/d:part[@name =
'PART_NAME_TO_DEFINE']/html/body/*">
	<xsl:if test="name() = 'h1' or name() = 'h2' or name() = 'h2'">
		<a id="{name()}_{position()}"></a>
		<!-- Even better would be to define the id attribute to the
h1, h2, ... tags itself -->
	</xsl:if>
	<xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:for-each>


> One possible solution was to create links to the different sections in
> the
> navigation menu but it could get difficult for big documents.


I'm not sure how this would affect performance...


cheers,
v



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> Shiva
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