Re: [docbook] DocBook Transclusion: Allow "prefix" in trans:idfixup?

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

I'm curious why Thomas?
It says suffix, adds a suffix?
Do you want to change the name too?

Just trying to understand.

regards


On 19 May 2016 at 08:03, Thomas Schraitle <tom_schr@web.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the "DocBook Transclusion" paper[1] defines some attributes
> (trans:idfixup, trans:suffix, and trans:linkscope) which are used for
> ID fixup in an (x)included XML document.
>
> The trans:idfixup can only have one of the values "none", "suffix", or
> "auto" (see B.5 "Manually assigned suffix"[2] for a more exhaustive
> example).
>
> That's all nice and dandy. ;) However, the keyword of "suffix" place the
> value of trans:suffix *after*. For example:
>
>   <xi:include href="x.xml"
>               trans:idfixup="suffix"
>               trans:suffix="_bar_"/>
>
> With the above trans attributes, a former ID "foo" is rewritten as
> "foo_bar_". However, I would like to get the opposite ("_bar_foo").
>
> I guess there is no solution with the current spec, right?
>
> Can we extend the spec to allow the value "prefix" in trans:suffix?
>
>
> -------
> [1] http://docbook.org/docs/transclusion/
> [2] http://docbook.org/docs/transclusion/#ex.9
>
> --
> Gruß/Regards,
>     Thomas Schraitle
>
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