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Subject: Re: [docbook] repeating/re-occuring info
René >>I have a list in my docbook that I would like to re-occur in a few spots in my document. I could do it by making that list an entity, but wouldn't that screw up linking and cross-references to point to that list? Just want to avoid copying/pasting. You could use XInclude in the following fashion: <book lang="en_GB"> <bookinfo> <title>Book</title> <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="legalnotice.subdoc.xml" /> </bookinfo> ... </book> where legalnotice.subdoc.xml looks like: <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN" "file:///c:/docbook/dtd/docbookx.dtd" []> <legalnotice> <title>Licensing Information</title> <para>Copyright Notice</para> ... </legalnotice> In your case, the subdoc would encapsulate your list in some fashion. Applying Stylesheets to get HTML or PDF (say) would be a 2 step process. The first step being a call to xmlint.exe to "resolve" the docbook document. ie. automatically resolve your xinclude references by inserting the subdoc text into a new docbook document (which can then be converted to HTML or PDF). A extract from my batch file that does this looks like this: echo Resolving XIncludes %1: xmllint.exe -xinclude %1.xml > %1.resolved.xml echo validating %1: xmllint.exe -noout -valid -postvalid %1.resolved.xml (where %1 is the name of my docbook document - without the extension). Caveat: I understand that not all docbook elements can be used as the root element in an xincluded subdoc. I can't remember why and I'm yet to discover one that doesn't work (perhaps I've been lucky). Mart PS: If you do start using ede (see other posting), I can send you some mods I made to the batch files to help me with this sort of issue.
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