On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 16:01:27 -0400 Stefan Seefeld <ste...@seefeld.name> wrote:
> On 09/14/2014 02:02 PM, Richard Hamilton wrote: > > Regarding the question of pulling the second listitem from a > > section with a particular id, I think the following will do the > > trick (I don't claim it's the most elegant way to do this, but it > > works with xmllint): > > > > <xi:include href="filename.xml" > > > > xpointer="xmlns(d=http://docbook.org/ns/docbook)xpointer(//d:section[@xml:id='sect-a']//d:listitem[2]))"/> > > Thanks, that works indeed ! > But the syntax is rather verbose and cumbersome, especially given > that I want to establish references such as the above for a couple of > hundreds of definitions in a single (modular) document. > I'm considering defining my own technique (drawing inspiration from > http://www.docbook.org/docs/transclusion/transclusion.html), then > using a two-phase processing with the first doing the transclusion > processing to generate valid DocBook, then the second to do the > actual formatting. > > Thanks for all the help (and the continued work that goes into > DocBook's evolution), > > Stefan If the cmd line is any help, have you looked at http://blog.xmlsh.org/ ? regards -- regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-apps-h...@lists.oasis-open.org
