Re: xtag-docboook: figures/graphics

Re: xtag-docboook: figures/graphics

[Hans Hagen]

At 11:33 PM 3/16/2002 +0100, Michael Wiedmann wrote:
>Hi Hans,
>
>I need your help for the following:
>
>in DocBook a graphic is included like:
>
>mediaobject
>   imageobject
>     imagedata
>   caption
>
>I have already a very simple mapping of the imagedata (the actual
>graphic file) to context's \placefigure, that's good.
>
>Now I want to get the 'caption' (if provided) to pass it on to
>\placefigure as a parameter.
>
>I tried:
>
>\defineXMLenvironment[mediaobject]
>    {\defineXMLpush[caption]}
>    {}
>
>\def\XMLDBmakefigure{%
>    \def\XMLDBfigurealign{\XMLpar{imagedata}{align}{}}%
>    \placefigure[\XMLDBfigurealign][]{\XMLpop{caption}}
>    {\externalfigure[\XMLpar{imagedata}{fileref}{}]}
>}
>\defineXMLargument[imagedata] \XMLDBmakefigure
>
>But unfortunately this does not work, so I surely do misinterpret the
>usage of \defineXMLpush and \XMLpop.

btw, it's save and flush now

>Any hints for me?

You need to save both the imageobject and caption and at the end of 
mediaobject use them; now you want to typeset the figure before the caption 
element is seen

[see x-contml on how figures are handled]

Hans
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