Re: [docbook-apps] support for xpointer

[davep <davep@dpawson.co.uk>]

On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 16:01:27 -0400
Stefan Seefeld <stefan@seefeld.name> wrote:

> On 09/14/2014 02:02 PM, Richard Hamilton wrote:
> > Regarding the question of pulling the second listitem from a
> > section with a particular id, I think the following will do the
> > trick (I don't claim it's the most elegant way to do this, but it
> > works with xmllint):
> >
> >   <xi:include href="filename.xml"
> >               xpointer="xmlns(d=http://docbook.org/ns/docbook)xpointer(//d:section[@xml:id='sect-a']//d:listitem[2]))"/>
> 
> Thanks, that works indeed !
> But the syntax is rather verbose and cumbersome, especially given
> that I want to establish references such as the above for a couple of
> hundreds of definitions in a single (modular) document.
> I'm considering defining my own technique (drawing inspiration from
> http://www.docbook.org/docs/transclusion/transclusion.html), then
> using a two-phase processing with the first doing the transclusion
> processing to generate valid DocBook, then the second to do the
> actual formatting.
> 
> Thanks for all the help (and the continued work that goes into
> DocBook's evolution),
> 
>         Stefan

If the cmd line is any help, have you looked at http://blog.xmlsh.org/ ?

regards 


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