Re: [docbook] Unhappy XEP: anchor as child of section

[David Priest <davidp@meyersound.com>]

On 09-Apr-3, at 10:34 AM, Thomas Schraitle wrote:
> On Freitag, 3. April 2009, David Priest wrote:
>> [...]
>>> Is there a reason why do you not use the xml:id attribute? If it's
>>> just for cross-referencing, xml:id is the perfect match.
>>
>> Because the xinclude does not copy the section element.  The xml:id
>> never makes it into the master document: only its children are  
>> copied.
>
> Hmn, I'm a bit confused. Let's say, you have a file foo.xml which  
> contains
> a section. To include it into your master document you just write:
>
> <xi:include href="foo.xml"/>
>
> Nothing else. :) Everything from foo.xml, including your section, is
> incorporated into your master document.

I do not want the section included, nor its title.  As I wrote in the  
original question, the xincludes usually look something like this:

<xi:include
	href="source.xml"
        xpointer="xmlns(db=http://docbook.org/ns/docbook)
		xmlns(xi=http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude)
		xpointer(//db:section[@xml:id='section_id']/db:title/following- 
sibling::*)"
/>

The source files are structured differently from the master document;  
the master document combines content from several sections,  
interspersed with customer-directed verbiage.

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