DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Including only a part of an external source code

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

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/ Joachim Ziegler <ziegler@mpi-sb.mpg.de> was heard to say:
| This markup always include the file as a whole - but sometimes I want
| to include only a part of a file, for example the C++ class
| definitons, then explain them, and later include hte rest of the code.
|
| Is there a way to do this with DocBook and one of its tools?

No, but I've occasionally tinkered with doing something about that.
Eric Wilde published an IETF draft on fragment identifers for
text/plain[1]. I might someday augment the text inclusion extension
function to support that fragment identifier scheme. Patches
gleefully accepted :-)

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

[1] http://dret.net/netdret/docs/draft-wilde-text-fragment-00.html

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