Guillem Jover <[email protected]> writes: > Something else that might be worth considering is switching the debconf > inclusions via ENTITY into proper XInclude's, like I did with the > upgrading checklist. I think these would make the markup more clear.
I looked at doing this, but the problem with XInclude is that it requires the included document be a correctly-formed DocBook document in its own right. The debconf specification uses includes to separate out tables and lists, rather than full document sections (and separating out full document sections wouldn't really achieve the modularity that it's trying for). This means, insofar as I understand DocBook XML, that to use XInclude one would have to add some unused wrapping around each include file to make it into a fake document and then use xpointer to pull out just the part of interest, and that all looked awkward and confusing compared to just continuing to use system entities. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
