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

[Jean-Christophe Helary <lists@traduction-libre.org>]

> On Nov 30, 2022, at 23:42, Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz> wrote:
> 
> 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?

It will solve it the moment I understand how to set that.

If I had known that what I'm looking for is called "transclusion" I would certainly have investigated this solution way before, but better late than never :-)


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