Re: [docbook-apps] XInclude of part of current document

["M.Canales.es" <macana@macana-es.com>]

El Jueves, 5 de Abril de 2007 19:22, Bob Stayton escribió:
> The XInclude spec seems to allow an href from an xi:include to part of the
> current document, by using either an empty href or an absent href in the
> xi:include element.  However, it doesn't seem to work.

It works for me:

----- test.xml ----

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd";>

<sect1>
  <title>Testing XInclude</title>

  <para>Para 1</para>

  <para>Para 2</para>

  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude";
              xpointer="xpointer(/sect1[1]/para[1])"/>

</sect1>
---------------------------------

~/test$ xmllint --xinclude --postvalid test.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN" 
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd";>
<sect1>
  <title>Testing XInclude</title>

  <para>Para 1</para>

  <para>Para 2</para>

  <para>Para 1</para>

</sect1>

You must be very careful with the xpointer expresion used. The above is the 
most failsafe one, but not very useful if the sources tree is changing.

I prefer to assign an ID to any element that will be Xinclude and then cal it 
using xpointer="xpointer(//@id='string')". There is more simple call for IDs, 
but that works also for XML documents that don't have a DTD.


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