Re: [docbook-apps] xinclude xpointer not including with id

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

In this section of my book:

http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/ModularDoc.html#XincludeSelect

I address that problem with this sentence:

"For selections based on id, the included document must have a DOCTYPE declaration 
that correctly points to the DocBook DTD. It is the DTD that declares that id 
attributes are of the ID type (the name id is not sufficient). If the file does not 
have the DOCTYPE or if the DTD cannot be opened, then such references will not 
resolve."

So does Version.xml have a DOCTYPE declaration?

Looking at my own sentence, I have to think:  what about DocBook 5 which does not use 
a DOCTYPE?  No problem.  DocBook 5 files use xml:id, which is predefined as of type 
ID.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Gregorio Pevaco
To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 9:12 AM
Subject: [docbook-apps] xinclude xpointer not including with id


Some background I am using xsltproc to process modular documents to pdf.
I have a file where I just want the one element included.
It is not getting included and I am getting error messages, like:
element include: XInclude error : could not load Version.xml

I would think it would be a xsltproc issue, but I am following the examples in the 
documentation and it is not working like that... so perhaps there is something obvious 
here I am overlooking.

so file Version.xml contains :

<chapter>
 <chapterinfo>
   <date id="DateVer">January 2012 Version 1.2.3</date>
   <releaseinfo id="RelInfo">12-002009-16.c</releaseinfo>
   <copyright id="Copyright">
     <year>2012. All rights reserved</year>
   </copyright>
 </chapterinfo>...


In my file Book.xml
I am tring to include the date info...
<!--Original xinclude should have worked per example in chapter 23-->
<!--xi:include href="Version.xml" xpointer="DateVer"
               xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"; / -->

<!--according to doc this way should also too, but does not-->
<xi:include href="Version.xml" xpointer="xpointer(id('DateVer'))"
               xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"; />

I have also tried :
<!--xi:include href="Version.xml" xpointer="element(DateVer)"
               xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"; / -->
and
<!--xi:include href="Version.xml" xpointer="element(date)"
               xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"; / -->


and none of these work, I am only interested in including the content of the <date> 
element from the Version.xml file.

Now were I to do, this,
<xi:include href="Version.xml" xpointer="element(/1)"
               xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"; />

then I get the entire contents from the Version.xml, which is not what I am interested 
in.
Is there something that I am missing here?
Why is this not working as indicated? Any suggestions?

Thanks,
/Gregorio