RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Including Fragments of other DocBook Documents

[Sagar dot Shah at ubsw dot com]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Paul Grosso [mailto:pgrosso@arbortext.com]
>Sent: 19 June 2002 15:01
>To: Shah, Sagar; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
>Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Including Fragments of other DocBook
>Documents
>
>
>At 11:41 2002 06 19 +0100, Sagar.Shah@ubsw.com wrote:
>>I would like to be able to include fragments of other docbook 
>documents in the document i'm writing. (to save maintaining 
>information in two places etc. etc.).
>
>
>>So far i've managed to use Xinlcude and do things along the lines of:
>>
>>-----
>><?xml version="1.0"?>
>><!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML 
>V4.1.2//EN" "docbookx.dtd" [
>><!ELEMENT xi:include (xi:fallback)>
>>                  <!ATTLIST xi:include
>>                      xmlns:xi  CDATA #FIXED 
>"http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude";         
>>                      href       CDATA                        
>           #REQUIRED
>>                      parse      (xml|text)                   
>           "xml"
>>                      encoding   CDATA                        
>           #IMPLIED
>>                  >
>><!ELEMENT xi:fallback ANY>
>>                  <!ATTLIST xi:fallback
>>                      xmlns:xi   CDATA #FIXED   
>"http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude";
>>                  >
>>]>
>>
>><article>
>>  <articleinfo>
>>    <title>Test</title>
>>    <author>
>>      <firstname>Sagar</firstname>
>>      <surname>Shah</surname>
>>    </author>
>>
>>  </articleinfo>
>>
>>  <section id="MyFirstSection">
>>    <title>foo</title>
>>    <para>la la</para>  
>>    <xi:include 
>href="docbook-tech-support-1.dbk#xpointer(id('OtherIssues'))"/> 
>>  </section>
>></article>
>>-----------
>>
>>This all works fine :-)
>
>This is interesting to me.  Can you please tell us what tool(s) you
>are using that have implemented XInclude?   (The W3C XML Core WG is
>still looking for XInclude implementation experience, and it was not
>clear to me that there was any great amount of XInclude support out
>there yet, so any information would be of value.)

I don't know how mature it is, but the Xinlcude support in libxslt and libxml2 works great for me :-)

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