Re: [docbook] xi:include problem

[Alex Kleider <akleider@sonic.net>]

On 2013-12-10 06:47, Shaun McCance wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-12-10 at 00:38 -0800, Alex Kleider wrote:
> > On 2013-12-09 22:55, davep wrote:
> >
> > > Jing is a validating parser, it knows nothing of xinclude.
> > > Use a tool to expand the xincludes prior to processing (validation and
> > > transformation).
> > >
> > > HTH
> >
> > Thanks for the tip.  I did some searching and found xmlstarlet but it
> > seems not to want to deal with RELAX NG:
> > """
> > alex@x301:~/Docbook/Opus$ xmlstarlet tr --xinclude
> > /usr/share/xml/docbook/schema/rng/5.0/docbook.rng main.xml
> > compilation error: file
> > /usr/share/xml/docbook/schema/rng/5.0/docbook.rng line 2 element 
> > grammar
> > xsltParseStylesheetProcess : document is not a stylesheet
> > """
> > A little more poking around and I came up with
> > $ xmlstarlet tr --xinclude
> > /usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/docbook5/db4-upgrade.xsl 
> > dreamplug.xml
> >  > dream.xml
> > which when followed by
> > $ jing /usr/share/xml/docbook/schema/rng/5.0/docbook.rng dream.xml
> > all seems to work fine.
> >
> > I don't quite understand why a program that expands xincludes would
> > want/need a style sheet.
> > I would have thought that one wouldn't be necessary until the next 
> > step
> > after validation:
> > $ xmlto --skip-validation html dream.xml
> > although xmlt never seems to complain at not having one.  I've assumed
> > it was using a default.
>
> xmlstarlet is not just a program for expanding XIncludes. You passed it
> the 'tr' command, which is for applying XSLT. If you want to validate
> against a schema and do XInclude processing, use xmllint, which will
> happily handle both XIncude and RNG for you:
>
> xmllint --xinclude --noout
> --relaxng /usr/share/xml/docbook/schema/rng/5.0/docbook.rng dream.xml
>
> --
> Shaun

Thanks, Shaun, for taking an interest.
On my (Ubuntu 12.4) system,
apt-cache search xmllint =>
libxml2-utils - XML utilities
bluefish - advanced Gtk+ HTML editor

Googling xmllint tells me that "It is included in libxml2."
A little more time with the man page should get me up to speed.

I very much appreciate the tip.
cheers,
alex


is xmllint part of libxml2-utils?

Also, in your call to xmllint, what does the noout parameter signify and 
where do you specify the source file?
(I'm sure I could figure all of this out if I could find

alex
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