Re: DOCBOOK: xref accross imported files when using slides

[Bob Stayton <bobs@caldera.com>]

> From: Christoph Steinbeck <steinbeck@ice.mpg.de>
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> I'm trying to use <xref> to point to a bibliography entry in a slide
> (based on slides.dtd).
> The whole mechanism works fine with the regular docbook html
> stylesheets, so maybe this is related to the use of slides.dtd and the
> associated stylesheets. 
> 
> Anyway, I have central slides.xml file, which imports the
> bibliograph.xml as an entity. 
> This bibliography.xml contains   <biblioentry id="helson99"
> xreflabel="helson99">...</biblioentry>
> When trying to do <xref linkend="helson99"/> in the central slides.xml
> file, I get the error "XRef to nonexistent id: helson99".
> 
> Any workaround for this? Or am I doing something wrong?

The problem is that slides.dtd does not contain
<biblioentry>, so the id attribute you use is not of type ID,
so IDREFs can't connect to it.  

It looks like bibliomset is supported instead.

bobs
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