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Hi Tom,
The olink database is just an XML file
generated by XSLT templates. It certainly could be adapted to capture
additional information. You would have to figure out where in the olink
data element structure you would put the new data (elements, attributes), and
then customize some of the templates in common/targets.xsl to generate those
elements. I don't think the new data would conflict with the existing
olink processing, since it calls specific element and attribute
names.
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Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 6:53
AM
Subject: [docbook-apps] adding additional
data to the olink database
I am currently using the olink
database file for some additional uses in my website (I use it to build a
sitemap, and to list the contents of particular directories). I want to use it
to generate a listing of all articles in a particular directory - which I can
do fine. The problem is that I need to access a little more information about
each document than what is provided in the olink sitemap. I would like to have
access to the abstract and author information. Currently I am using XSL's
document() function to open up each article to extract the required data but I
feel this is a little slow an inefficient, and I would rather avoid having to
open up each individual article just to access this little bit of extra
information.
Some of my articles
use XIncludes to include dynamic content, so whenever I do
"document('path/to/docbook/document.xml')/article/articleinfo/abstract"
xsltproc processes all the Xincludes in the entire document, which puts a
heavy load on my server and slows things down a lot (because the server is
having to generate the dynamic content for each article, just to load it into
memory).
Is there a way to make
the olink database generation stylesheets include extra information?
or
Is there a way to tell xsltproc to not process XIncludes (although I am
not using xsltproc directly, but through AxKit - a Cocoon style dynamic xml
transformation pipeline framework, so I do not think I will be able to tinker
with xsltproc very easily)?
many thanks
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Tom Kirkpatrick
Web Developer - Virus
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