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Re: xmllint - xinclude
no but, xhtml is xml right?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Veillard" <veillard@redhat.com>
To: "fyl2xp1" <vnhu38f93@subdimension.com>
Cc: "docbook-apps" <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 5:48 PM
Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: xmllint - xinclude
> 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
> > "../../nice.css";</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.
>
> First it's the wrong list to post about it. See
> http://xmlsoft.org/bugs.html
> Second XInclude applies only to XML (well it's theorically
> defined in terms of the XML Infoset) and the generated resource
> after XInclude is an XML file, and from an XML point of view
> " and '"' are completely equivalent in PCDATA.
> Now the special rule about "style" serialization of HTML
> may make them different, but it's a completely different context
> XML is not HTML, and once processed by an XML parser you cannot make
> the difference ! Libxml will handle quote serialization appropriately
> within <style> when saving an HTML resource but no such rule exists
> at the XML level.
>
> Daniel
>
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