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Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] Alternative to entities?
Give it a try. In my experience, XInclude is well integrated in XXE. First, on the Options | Edit tab, you'd have selected Type of document reference: 'XInclude' or 'Entity when possible, XInclude otherwise'. Then you could go along like this: 1) open both entities.xml and the document that you are authoring 2) select the element in entities.xml that you want to reference 3) select Edit | Document Reference | Copy as Reference or type Ctrl+Shift+C 4a) to insert an inline element, set the insertion point in your document and type Ctrl+V 4b) to insert a block element, set the insertion point in your document and type Ctrl+U (paste before) or Ctrl+W (paste after). There's a tutorial [1]. The reference could look like this <xi:include href="entties.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" xpointer="productname" /> or <xi:include href="entties.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" xpointer="element(productname)" /> or <xi:include href="entties.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" xpointer="xpointer(id('productname'))" /> or <xi:include href="entties.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" xpointer="element(/1/2/3)" /> AFAIK, there's a couple of limitations. Not all off the XPointer scheme is supported; the XPointer expression must yield a result infoset with one node; and one particular feature that I miss <xi:include href="some-source-code-or-xml-file" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" parse="text"> XXE will quote the included file as it is supposed to, but the reference will be gone, replaced by the quoted content of the included file. [1] http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/tutorial.html#id.s2 kind regards Peter Ring > -----Original Message----- > From: Jirka Kosek [mailto:jirka@kosek.cz] > Sent: 17. januar 2005 19:52 > To: davep@dpawson.co.uk > Cc: Gurra Green; Docbook-Apps > Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Alternative to entities? > > > Dave Pawson wrote: > > > Not speaking from experience. > > > > If an xinclude aware processor is used, > > could that stand in for XML entities Jirka? > > Yep, you can use something like > > <xi:include href="entities.xml#productname"/> > > to pull element from external file entities.xml: > > <root> > <phrase xml:id="productname">SuperSoft v3.5</phrase> > ... > </root> > > But as you can see XInclude is quite verbose in this case and I'm not > sure whether XXE can deal with such XIncludes. > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Jirka Kosek e-mail: jirka@kosek.cz http://www.kosek.cz > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Profesionální školení a poradenství v oblasti technologií XML. > Podívejte se na náš nově spuštěný web http://DocBook.cz > Podrobný přehled školení http://xmlguru.cz/skoleni/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > >
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