Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Concrete proposal for #480954: Extend textobject toinsert external files

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>]

At 8:58 AM -0500 11/13/01, Norman Walsh wrote:


>But, using XInclude would raise at least the following issues:
>
>1. Can we limit it to parse=text. I don't think so. If we refer
>    normatively to XInclude, we have to accept XInclude semantics.
>

Fine with me. :-)

>2. Where would we allow xinclude elements? For the task at hand, we'd
>    probably only want to allow them in a very small number of places,
>    but as soon as we include it, no pun intended, people will want
>    parse=xml and can I put it anywhere, please?
>

Ummm, I'm already doing that. It works just fine without changing 
Docbook at all.


>6. If we allow it anywhere, what do we say or do about validation
>    when parse=xml?

We could easily write the DTDs to require the parse attribute of 
xinclude:include to have the value text. If people want to use 
parse="xml", then more power to them. They just have to resolve 
everything before validating against the standard DTDs. (This is, in 
fact, what I'm already doing.)

>And I wonder if it isn't reasonable to do both, to provide the textobject
>extensions now and XInclude support as well. Either now or later.
>

I suppose that's possible. I just prefer not to reinvent the wheel.
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