Re: [docbook-apps] Re: How to validate DocBook 5 with XInclude?

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

Boris wrote:

> Thanks for the link! Out of interest: Is this a DocBoook speciality or 
> you always have to include documents first when you want to validate?

It depends on what you want. Of course it possible to validate XML 
document without resolving XIncludes but then you can't be sure that 
after resolving document will be also valid. If you will include chapter 
inside chapter you will not see error until you resolve includes as 
standalone included chapter is valid, and it is possible to have 
XInclude element inside chapter.

If you want to validate without resolving XIncludes, you should use 
DocBook schema which allows xi:include elements -- docbookxi.rng or 
docbookxi.rnc from http://www.docbook.org/xml/5.0/rng/

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