RE: [docbook-apps] Reusing <section> where a <chapter> should be - and the reverse

["Peter Desjardins" <pdesjardins@supplyscape.com>]

That xpointer did work perfectly.  Thank you!

This may be a question for the docbook list but is this a common problem
encountered when reusing content?  I've run into it many times when
making short excerpts of material in larger technical references.

Now I have a working solution so I'm happy.  XMLMind won't accept the
syntax of the xpointer but since I'm actually writing the content in
other documents it doesn't matter.

Peter Desjardins

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Cramer (Tech Pubs) [mailto:dcramer@motive.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 09:39
> To: Peter Desjardins; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] Reusing <section> where a 
> <chapter> should be - and the reverse
> 
> Try this:
> 
> <chapter>
>     <xi:include href="docbook-file-containing-the-modular-content.xml"
>                 xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude";
>  
> xpointer="xpointer(//section[@id='IdOfTheSectionElement']/*)"/>
> </chapter>
> 
> David
> 
> > Reading Chapter 22. Modular DocBook files in DocBook XSL led me to 
> > believe that the following xi:include could solve the 
> problem for me.  
> > I expect it to include every child element of a <section> 
> element in 
> > the <chapter> element.
> > 
> > <chapter>
> >     <xi:include 
> href="docbook-file-containing-the-modular-content.xml"
> >                 xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude";
> >                 xpointer="element(IdOfTheSectionElement/*)" 
> > /> </chapter>
> > 
> > But the xi:include fails.  I use xmllint to resolve 
> xi:includes.  It 
> > gives the following errors:
> > 
> > docbook-file-that-is-including.xml:11: element include: 
> > XInclude error :
> > XPointer evaluation failed: #element(IdOfTheSectionElement/*)
> > docbook-file-that-is-including.xml:11: element include: 
> > XInclude error :
> > could not load
> > docbook-file-containing-the-modular-content.xml, and no 
> fallback was 
> > found
> > 
> > Is my xpointer syntax incorrect?  Other xi:includes from the same 
> > source file resolved without any trouble (they include entire 
> > elements).
> > 
> > Is there a better way to reuse <section> and <chapter> elements in 
> > each other's hierarchical places?
> > 
> > In case it matters, here's my xmllint version:
> > 
> > $ xmllint --version
> > xmllint: using libxml version 20626
> >    compiled with: Threads Tree Output Push Reader Patterns Writer 
> > SAXv1 FTP HTTP DTDValid HTML Legacy C14N Catalog XPath XPointer 
> > XInclude Iconv ISO8859X Unicode Regexps Automata Expr Schemas 
> > Schematron Modules Debug
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks for your help!
> > 
> > Peter Desjardins
> > 
> > 
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