Re: [docbook-apps] xinclude processing.

[Michael Smith <smith@xml-doc.org>]

Dave Pawson <davep@dpawson.co.uk> writes:

> I'm looking at an SGML book using hundreds of entities 
> 
> <!ENTITY ex1 SYSTEM "ex1.sh">
> 
> To move this to docbook rng, I'm thinking about a script or
> something to convert the callouts to xinclude statements.
> 
> 1. Is this reasonable.

Sounds reasonable to me. Whether it's worth the effort or not, I
can't say. If the book is building now without problems, then why
do you want to mess around with it? :-)

> 2. Is it only libxslt that hacks xinclude as yet?
> (and any particular version please)

If by "hacks" you mean "implements", then, as far as standalone
apps, I know there's also XIncluder[1]. And there's a list of
implementations[2] that was probably fairly complete at one time
but probably isn't now. Meaning that there are more now,
especially ones integrated into other apps (as opposed to standalone).

[1] http://xincluder.sourceforge.net/}
[2] http://www.w3.org/XML/2002/09/xinclude-implementation

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