Hello,
We are using docbook 4.2 with our own customizations and our authoring
tool is XMetaL 5.0.
Currently we have a very large chapter, largechapter.xml, that contains
reference material.
This chapter is divided into sect1s. For various reasons, we'd like
to split up the contents of largechapter.xml into three files/entities
and insert the
entities into the largechapter.xml.
What we've done is created three files that contain a list of sect1s.
For example file1.xml 's hierarchy looks like the following:
<sect1>
referenceA material
</sect1>
<sect1>
referenceB material
</sect1>
...
We have no problem inserting an entity for file1.xml into largechapter.xml
and validating
largechaper.xml. The problem is that we can't validate file1.xml on its
own, because
it does not contain an over-arching root. As a result, it is difficult for
us to edit
file1.xml. Is there a tag that we could use that would fit within the
chapter tag and would
accept sect1s? Or is there another way to do this?
I know that an easy solution would be to convert all the current sect1s in
file1.xml
to sect2s and use one sect1. We'd prefer not to do this as it would add an
extra level for our users to drill down through.
Any suggestions welcome!
Thank you,
Kate
