RE: [docbook-apps] Use of xincludes vs. entities

[<rob.cavicchio@emc.com>]

Ron Catterall [mailto:ron@catterall.net] wrote:

> My biggest problem with Xinclude is the duplicate ID if a piece of text
> is included twice etc.  Would it be possible to reset an ID of an
> Xincluded test on the Xinclude statement with an attribute, e.g.
> 
> <xi:include href="venn.xml" ***newid="qwerty"***
> xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude";>
>    <xi:fallback><para><emphasis> MISSING INCLUDE FILE - venn.xml
> </emphasis></para></xi:fallback>
> </xi:include>
> 
> Would this be a major enhancement?  Is it a reasonable suggestion?


XInclude is not part of DocBook. I think you'd need to go through the W3C to propose enhancements to it. That said, your solution only solves part of the problem, I think. What about IDs on elements that are inside the main XIncluded element? And what about nested XIncludes?

Personally I haven't had a lot of issues with XIncludes and IDs. Usually if I give something an ID, it's because it's unique, and therefore I'm unlikely to include it twice in the same document.


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