Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: XInclude doesn't validate with xmllint

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

At 4:18 PM +0000 12/6/02, Nicholas Atkinson wrote:
>My point was that I needed to add:
>
>    xmlns:xinclude CDATA #FIXED "http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude";
>
>to the <!ATTLIST of chapter
>
>and remove:
>
>    xmlns:xinclude CDATA #FIXED "http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude";
>
>from the <!ATTLIST of xinclude:include
>
>for the example to work.  At least, in my environment.

I don't think you should have had to do that. Which environment are you using?

>What does XInclude do if the included document has an internal document type
>declaration that redefines the
>content models of elements, or when the included document is using DocBook
>v4.1.2 and the including document is using DocBook v4.2 ?!

No problems. Each document is loaded separately and then merged. Each 
original, separate document uses the DTD it references. It does not 
care what other document's may or may not use.
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