Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: xmllint - xinclude

[Bob Stayton <bobs at caldera dot com>]

On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 05:39:28PM +0100, fyl2xp1 wrote:
> OK, not really specific to docbook, well It is
> for my project which is entirely in docbook.
> But this refers to generating html output.
> 
> I am using ant to compile all my docbook
> sources, this is no problem. I deciced that
> it would be a good idea to modularise
> my html pages that are serving the docbook
> documents. This was because I had a
> common menu which appeared in all
> the items so it was tedious to edit all the items'
> web pages when I wanted to add a new item.
> 
> I pulled the common menu out and placed it in
> a separate XML file, then placed xincludes
> inside each of the html files to pull the common
> menu in. My problem occurs when doing this
> using xmllint and its --xinclude option.  Everything
> is output fine, except:
> 
> <style type="text/css" media="all">@import 
> &quot;../../nice.css&quot;;</style>
> 
> The I need the ../../nice.css bit to be in actual
> quotes, not entity references, it seems as though
> xmllint changes these references because it thinkgs
> they are content in the html page, I have tried
> various output options with xmllint but I cannot
> seem to fix this problem.  Is there a way to do this,
> all I want --xinclude to do is, do the xinclude but leave
> the rest of my document untouched.

I don't know how to tell xmllint to not convert the quotes.
But are you sure you need quotes here?
The CSS syntax I use to import a stylesheet is

<style type="text/css">@import url(../../nice.css)</style>

That survives xmllint just fine.

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