Re: [docbook-apps] XInclude: multiple <preface>s

[Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 01:50:41PM -0800, Bob Stayton wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 04:04:43PM -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >   The XIncluded parts must be well formed XML documents. That's
> > completely indepedant of the DocBook syntax, you don't have the
> > right to put multiple roots in an XML document, be it XIncluded or not.
> 
> Slight correction.  The document being pointed to must be
> well formed, but the parts being included do not.

  Right :-)

> With a little creativity, you can work around this problem.
> Your preface document can be a <book> element that contains
> multiple prefaces.  If your XInclude resolver handles
> basic XPointer syntax (like xsltproc does), then you can
> pull in the set of prefaces without the book element:
> 
> <xi:include  href="preface.xml#xpointer(/book/preface)"
>              xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>

  Yup, that should work, except the xpointer() selector may never
end up being standardized and you may have to do ugly things like
#element(/1/2) instead to have interoperable XIncludes, sigh ...

Daniel

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