On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Bob Stayton <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jeffrey, > The errors are about including simplesect in an inappropriate location. The > DTD does not permit mixing simplesect and sections as siblings. > > As you found, your introduction modular file has to have a root element to > contain all of its content in order for it to be parsed as an XML document, > but you don't want to include that root element. I can see two solutions: > > 1. Make the introduction a system entity reference instead of an Xinclude. > A system entity file does not need to have a root element, so it could > contain your sequence of paras and such. > > 2. Since you are using xsltproc, you can use the extended xpointer syntax > that it supports. That can select all the children of the root element, but > not the root element. Something like: > > <xi:include href="test-intro.xml" xpointer="xpointer(/simplesect/*)" > xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/> > > This reference has some more details about the latter method: > > http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/ModularDoc.html#XincludeSelect Thanks for the help.
Its unfortunate the folks who wrote the standard have decided to make a task which should be simple so difficult (from the dumb user perspective, which is what I am). Jeff --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
