RE: [docbook-apps] Code Block and Xinclude

["Mauritz Jeanson" <mj@johanneberg.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Raymond 
> 
> The following code block
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
>    <config param="banner" value="&BANNER;"/>
>    <config param="banner-tabular" value="&BANNER_TABULAR;"/>
>    <config param="feedback.href" value="&FEEDBACK_HREF;"/>
>    <config param="footer" value="&FOOTER;" altval="&ALTVAL_FOOTER;"/>
>    <config param="footlink" value="&FOOT_LINK;" 
> altval="&ALTVAL_FOOT_LINK;"/>
>    <config param="homebanner" value="&HOMEBANNER;"/>
>    <config param="homebanner-tabular" value="&HOMEBANNER_TABULAR;"/>
>    <config param="navbgcolor" value="&NAV_BG_COLOR;"/>
>    <config param="navtocwidth" value="&NAV_TOC_WIDTH;"/>
>    <config param="rcsdate" value="&RCS_DATE;"/>
> --------------------------------------------------------------

[...]

> How does one utilize an xinclude for the aforementioned block 
> as it is my understanding that an xinclude'd document requires a singular
root element.


Here is one way to do it. Wrap the config elements in a root element, like
this:

<root>
<!DOCTYPE root [
<!ENTITY BANNER "...">
 ...
]>
  <config param="banner" value="&BANNER;"/>
  <config .../>
  ...
</root>

Save the above to a file (config.xml). Then add an XInclude definition to
the webpage files:

<xi:include href="config.xml" xpointer="xpointer(//config)"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude";>    
  <xi:fallback>XInclude fallback</xi:fallback> 
</xi:include> 

Note: this only works with an XInclude processor that supports the
xpointer() scheme. Xerces 2.7.0 does not support it, but a recent version of
libxml2 (xmllint/xsltproc) does.

/MJ