Adding new element to the scheme

Hi

Iâm new to docbook and XSLT, and tried to find the answer among the different books/websites and failed, so looking up for your help (pointers to the right place will be good as well).

 

Iâm trying to add a new element to my docbook, that will describe a requirement for example:

 

<requirement>

   <req_id>TRC_001</req_id>

   <version>1</version>

   <status>New</status>

   <priority>H</priority>

   <description>We need to be able to save a snapshot of requirements per product version</description>

   <traceability>None</traceability>

</requirement>

 

In my outputs, I want to format each such requirement as a table. Writing same table as docbook table directly, I would have something like:

 

<table>

                 <tgroup cols="4">

                                <colspec colnum="1" colname="1" colwidth="*" />

                                <colspec colnum="2" colname="3" colwidth="*" />

                                <colspec colnum="3" colname="3" colwidth="*" />

                                <colspec colnum="4" colname="4" colwidth="*" />

                                <spanspec spanname="desc" namest="1" nameend="3"/>

                                <tbody>

                                                <row>

                                                                <entry><para>TRC_001</para> </entry>

                                                                <entry><para>1</para> </entry>

                                                                <entry><para>New</para></entry>

                                                                <entry><para>H</para></entry>

                                                </row>

                                                <row>

                                                               <entry spanname="desc"><para> We need to be able to save a snapshot of requirements per product version </para></entry>

                                                                <entry colname="4"><para>None</para></entry>

                                                </row>

                                </tbody>

                </tgroup>

    </table>           

 

I tried to add this to stylesheet, but I cannot write âdocbookâ table there, and I have to do it per output format (HTML â use the tr & td flags, FO for PDF and other print formatsâ)

 

Is there a way to do the conversion of the new ârequirementâ into docbook code, which will automatically be formatted as HTML or FO later, base on the
 xsltproc parameters I give?

Is there a way to add reference based on the requirement ID (so I can link to it later)?

 

Thanks in advance

Ilan

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