RE: [docbook] Tags to allow re-use of content from other documents

[Chris Borg <Chris.Borg@AssetHouse.com>]

Yes the UML tool content will be output in XML and you have read the
question correctly. XInclude and Xpointer does offer a solution. Thanks.

The only downside it seems is that we are currently using FOP which I think
will mean the introduction of another tool to resolve Xinclude entries prior
to validation (FOP can be integrated with Xereces but ignores Xpointer and
only works with whole docs - same as the way entities would work and not
sure of benefit of Xinclude). xmlint (xmllib2)maybe? I guess that is a
discussion for another mail list unless you have experience of any relevant
tools to validate Xinclude?

Rgds
Chris


-----Original Message-----
From: David Cramer (Tech Pubs) [mailto:dcramer@motive.com]
Sent: 16 January 2007 16:09
To: Camille Bégnis; Chris Borg
Cc: docbooklist
Subject: RE: [docbook] Tags to allow re-use of content from other
documents


If I'm reading the question correctly, it sounds more like an xinclude
thing:
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/ModularDoc.html

Using that he can pull in arbitrary content from one xml doc into another
(I'm assuming that the modeling tool's content is in xml). 

David 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Camille Bégnis [mailto:camille@neodoc.biz] 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 9:23 AM
> To: Chris Borg
> Cc: docbooklist
> Subject: Re: [docbook] Tags to allow re-use of content from 
> other documents
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> Hi,
> 
> maybe all you need is profiling?
> http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Profiling.html
> 
> That question would go to docbook-apps list then.
> 
> Camille.
> 
> Chris Borg a écrit :
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I am looking to determine if there any tags that can be 
> applied to a 
> > Docbook book that will allow re-use of content by another 
> Docbook book?
> > 
> > We will be creating the source docbook xml document from a 
> modelling 
> > tool that contains some comments and want to re-use these 
> comments as 
> > paragraph text and glossary entries in a target book. We 
> hope that by 
> > doing this it will allow us to maintain the comments in the 
> modelling 
> > tool and keep the target Docbook file that uses this upto 
> date with minimal intervention.
> > 
> > Also, could there be any implications for subsequent HTML 
> or PDF outputs?
> > 
> > Thanks and regards
> > Chris
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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