[daisy] finer control over styling of included documents

[cajaygle]

Thanks for the ideas, Karel.  In my case the doctypes are all the  
same, but I should be able to provide a few simple styling options  
based on a field in the including or included document.

I have opened issue DSY-634 as a request for style_hint support.

Jay


On Apr 3, 2008, at 3:45 AM, Karel Vervaeke wrote:

> For this we usually depend on css, here are a few specific approaches
> (pick one that matches your situation)
>
> 1. Different styling depending on the type of the including document.
> Here we have three document types ("typeA", "typeB", "typeC") and  
> three
> documents (A, B, C of the corresponding type)
>
> C is the document that is included (once by 'A' and once by 'B').
>
> In the document styling of type[ABC], slap a div tag around the  
> contents
> with a class attribute that corresponds to the documenttype (say,
> typeAContent, typeBContent, typeCContent.
>
> Next, in layout.xsl you can do something like this:
>
> .typeAContent .typeCContent {
> background: "#f0f"; /* magic pink */
> }
>
> .typeBContent .typeCContent {
> background: #ff0; /* yellow */
> }
>
> If you can't solve it with css styling alone, you can always render
> typeC twice, once using @class="typeCforTypeA" and once using
> @class="typeCinTypeB", next use
>
> .typeAContent .typeCinTypeB {
> display: none;
> }
>
> typeBContent .typeCinTypeA {
> display: none;
> }
>
> (However this is ugly, since you would send the same content twice
> everytype typeC is include.  A lot can be done with smart use of CSS  
> on
> a single copy)
>
> 2.  You can also have different styles based on fields on the document
> (this way you can have two instances of 'typeA', but let the styling
> depend on the value of the field).  I would not encourage this  
> approach:
> my experience is that things quickly become complicated this way.
>
> 3. Styling a single-include different from a query-include is not
> possible to the best of my knowledge, sorry.
>
> HTH,
> Karel
>
> ps: we know that something like style_hint would be nice for includes,
> we simply never got around to solving this because the css approach  
> has
> (so far) always worked ;-) (well that, and it not an easy problem)
>
> On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 19:22 -0400, cajaygle wrote:
>> Hi, I'm wondering if there's a way to have finer control of the
>> styling of included documents.  Currently we have customized our
>> document styling to take into account the isIncluded attribute,
>> however, that only allows us to have a single style for included
>> documents.  Ideally, I'm looking for a way for the including document
>> to control the style of included documents, for both query-includes
>> and single includes -- something akin to style_hint that is possible
>> on regular queries.  Alternatively, is there any way that I could
>> style a single included document differently than when multiple
>> documents are included?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jay
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