Re: [docbook] State of topic oriented writing in DocBook?

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

On 30.11.2022 15:25, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
> It seems to me that there could be a mechanism where xi:include manages included IDs by generating some kind of "name space" over the whole document, maybe based on the "includee" part ID.
>
> I can see how linking to such IDs form other parts could be non-trivial, but conversely, I don't see the point of trying to link to an ID that will be included in multiple places in a document, so maybe the point is moot.

Well this is already supported by XInclude and transclusion mechanism, see:

https://docbook.org/docs/transclusion/transclusion.html#ex.6

xslTNG support this mechanism, when enabled by the following option:

https://xsltng.docbook.org/guide/p_docbook-transclusion.html

Does this solve your use-case?


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