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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: file path peculiarity with xinclude
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 05:31:00PM +0000, Lisa Carey wrote: > Hi list, > > I have a number of existing docbook documents, and was hoping to use > xinclude to join them together into a larger book as described in Bob's > helpful guide. Each of the documents includes some external files as system > entities. > > When I used Elliotte Rusty Harold's xinclude java app to try and resolve the > xincludes in my master book document, it mysteriously couldn't seem to find > the system entities. Further investigation revealed that it was looking for > each of these external files one level up from their actual location in the > file system. So, for instance, if the file was at C:\foo\bar\myfile.xml, it > would look for it as foo\myfile.xml. > > The xinclude app was run in the same directory as all of the docs to be > xincluded - this was the directory that it seemed to be "skipping" when > looking for the entity files ("bar" in the above example). If I change the > entity declarations in the subdocuments to point to the "wrong" location, > the files are found - however, this means that I can't generate any output > directly from the subdocuments without changing the entity declarations back > again. > > Did I do something wrong? Should I try using another xinclude application? > Do I need to <shudder> replace all the system entities in my subdocuments > with xincludes? Any explanations/help gratefully recieved. It is hard to tell from the information you've provided. Could you give a little more detail of where the files are and how they are being referenced by xinclude and entity references? Also, where are the entities being declared? -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 The SCO Group fax: (831) 429-1887 email: bobs@sco.com
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