Re: DOCBOOK: Advantages of XInclude?

[Bob Stayton <bobs@caldera.com>]

On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 04:25:58PM +0100, kim.weit@swipnet.se wrote:
> I have a problem about XInclude and docbook. 
> 
> With XInclude it4s possible to nest xml-documents. A book can be devided into chapters and a chapter can be devided into smaller parts and so on. One of the "greatest" advantages with XInclude is the possibility to validate the modules. In my chapters, I have a XInclude element pointing to a smaller part of the chapter. This meens that I have to change my DTD in a way that it accepts this xinclude element to be able to validate the chapter. I will have to to this for the other parts as well. 
> I don4t see the big advantage og validating the parts if I need specially designed DTDs for all the parts. 
> 
> Now somebody will answer that I have to bring all the parts together before I can validate the document. It wolud be possible, but then I am getting even more sceptical about the possibility to validate the parts.
> 
> I would be very thankfull if somebody could explain this to me.

There was a recent discussion about this that starts at:

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/docbook-apps/2002-q4/msg00101.html

The followup messages describe some of the issues
regarding validating files that include Xincludes.

Unfortunately, there is no easy answer because Xinclude
is such a flexible mechanism.  It all depends on how
you use it.

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