Hi! I'm having a hard time with xinclude: I have two files FOO and BAR, each representing a docbook chapter. In chapter FOO I have a table that I would like to refer to in chapter BAR. With XMLMind this is possible by adding an id attribute to the table element. Now I can "copy as reference" the table from FOO and paste the reference into BAR. So far so good and my chapter BAR is a valid instance of docbook.
The problem comes when I process the whole book where both chapters FOO and BAR are referenced via xinclude: After I have resolved the includes with xmllint I end up with an invalid instance of docbook due to the fact that the table, along with its id attribute, is now present twice. By the way, I also get a (correct) warning about duplicate IDs when when I open the book in XMLMind. After some reading on xinclude I came up with the following solution to use in BAR: <table id="newID"> <xi:include href="FOO" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" xpointer="xpointer(id('someID')/*)" /> </table> I manually enter the table element and simply xinclude all child nodes, leaving out the id attribute. xmllint will happily process this while XMLMind chokes on the unsupported scheme for XPointer. Now I am pretty sure that it's a common request to reuse content like I plan to do. I am sure there is a nice and clean way to achieve this with both XMLMind and any other tool and I was just not able to find it ... Thanks a lot for your help! Patrick -- Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! Ideal f?r Modem und ISDN: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer

