RE: [docbook] Future DocBook Ruminations - Modular Source Files & XInclude

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo at metalab dot unc dot edu>]

At 5:20 PM +0100 8/20/03, Wills, Robert wrote:

>  <?oodb-include href="intro.xml"?>
>
> ... with ...
>
>  <include xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"; href="intro.xml"/>
>
> ... which seems the "correct" approach, the validating editors I have tried
> immediately complain about the unrecognised <include> element.

You need to declare that element (and redefine a couple of entities) 
in the internal DTD subset like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
                      "docbook/docbookx.dtd" [
 <!-- add XIncludes -->
 <!ENTITY % local.para.char.mix " | xinclude:include">
 <!ELEMENT xinclude:include EMPTY>
 <!ATTLIST xinclude:include
    xmlns:xinclude CDATA #FIXED "http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude";
    href           CDATA #REQUIRED
    parse          (text | xml) "xml"
 >
]>


Depending on exactly where you put the include elements you may need 
to adjust which parameter entity references you override. This 
example works when you never include inline elements, only block 
level elements and higher. And of course you may have to change the 
namespace prefix to suit. But this is essentially how it's done.
--

  Elliotte Rusty Harold
  elharo@metalab.unc.edu
  Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002)
  http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava
  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA

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