I'm glad I could help, icewind. The xinclude elements refer to another Cocoon pipeline, which extracts the title from the tei doc, where it is located at "TEI.2/teiHeader/fileDesc/titleStmt/title/text()". This other pipeline extracts this "TEI.2/teiHeader/fileDesc/titleStmt/title/text()" and produces a document with a single top-level element "title":
<title>Some Book Title</title> So the xpointer fragment #xpointer(/title/text()) is just to take the text from out of THIS document. Why the 2-step process? I could have xincluded it directly by referring directly to the source TEI document and using an xpointer of "TEI.2/teiHeader/fileDesc/titleStmt/title/text()", but I wanted to be able (later) to define the book title differently, perhaps including the contents of other elements than just "TEI.2/teiHeader/fileDesc/titleStmt/title", such as TEI.2/teiHeader/fileDesc/publicationStmt/publisher", etc. This is a separation of concerns: the first XSLT is concerned with defining an html page of links to xml documents, where the 2nd XSLT is concerned with the semantics of TEI, i.e. "what constitutes the 'title' of a TEI document?" Con > -----Original Message----- > From: icewind [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, 10 July 2002 11:41 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: generating a manifest of xml docs > > > > > Conal, > > Thank you very much for taking the time to explain > your setup to me. I have found it to be very valuable > and I think others on the list will too. > > I got it working on my setup by including the full > XPath expression for the node I want to select in the > xinclude tag. I's a little uncertain about the > fragment "#xpointer(/title/text()". What exactly does > that do? Is that a tag that you are looking for in the > ebook? At first I thought it was but then I saw you > using the XPath to extract the title in the stylesheet > that extracts the title for you. > > Thanks. > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free > http://sbc.yahoo.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Please check that your question has not already been answered in the > FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faq/index.html> > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faq/index.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
