Re: [docbook-apps] xinclude conditionally

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

Hi Georges,
The stylesheet never sees the xi:include element.  An XInclude-aware parser
replaces the xi:include element with its content before handing it off to
the stylesheet processor.  So the condition attribute would be lost before
the DocBook XSL stylesheet has a chance to act on it.

However, you could do it by preprocessing with an extra profiling step that
has XInclude processing turned off.  The DocBook stylesheet
profiling/profile.xsl acts on *any* element with the profiling attributes,
so it should apply to the xi:include element as well.  Of course, since
XInclude processing is turned off, any profiling attributes in the XIncludes
would still need to be processed after the XIncludes are resolved.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Georges Schmitz" <georges.schmitz@arcor.de>
To: "docbook-apps" <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 2:40 AM
Subject: [docbook-apps] xinclude conditionally


> what is the best way to conditionally include xml documents by using
> Xinclude. We have in DocBook a standard attribute called "condition" and
> I would like to use it directly in <xi:include> (see below). Or have I
> to set the attribute necessarily in the root element of the included
> document?
>
>
> My wish:
>
>   <xi:include
>     xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude";
>     href="art-tutorial.xml"
>     parse="xml"
>     condition="tutorial"
>     >
>     <xi:fallback>
>       <para>
>         <emphasis role="bold">FIXME: missing xinclude content
> (metadata)</emphasis>
>       </para>
>     </xi:fallback>
>   </xi:include>
>
>
>
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