On Wednesday, December 17, 2003, at 03:20 AM, Hussein Shafie wrote: > Steve Sarette wrote: >> Hello. >> I'm thinking about purchasing XML Mind profession edition, but before >> I do I want to make sure about something. I have an absolute >> requirement to be able to "variablize" product names. Normally I >> would just use shared text entities for this (e.g. <!ENTITY myprod >> "My New Product Name> but XmlMind replaces these on import. >> So I'm wondering if I can achieve the same effect using XInclude. >> What I would want to do is have a file with all my variables in it, >> and identify each with an id tag. For example: >> <para><phrase id="myprod">My New Product Name</phrase><phrase >> id="otherprod">My Other Product Name</phrase> >> and then use XInclude to include the appropriate phrase where >> necessary in the text body. By reading the product doc and by playing >> around with the free version of XMLMind, it certainly seems like this >> should work. However, I'm reluctant to gamble a few hundred dollars >> only to find out that it doesn't. >> Also, I need to know if this sort of thing will work with the PDF and >> RTF conversion plug-ins that are available for XmlMind. > > I tested this with: > > --- > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> > <!DOCTYPE para PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN" > "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd";> > <para> > <phrase id="myprod">My New Product Name</phrase> > <phrase id="otherprod">My Other Product Name</phrase> > </para> > --- > > Note that you need to add a DTD to make XXE recognize id as being an > ID attribute. > > Everything works fine with the Professional Edition, including > conversion to RTF and PDF. > > I created this: > > --- > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> > <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN" > "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd";> > <article> > <title>Test</title> > > <sect1> > <title>Test</title> > > <para>First product <xi:include > href="phrases.xml#myprod" > xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"; > ></xi:include > >.</para> > > <para>Second product <xi:include > href="phrases.xml#otherprod" > xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"; > ></xi:include > >.</para> > </sect1> > </article> > --- > > I just have to warn you that the GUI is a bit tedious to use when you > repeatedly insert references to different elements found inside the > same external document. (For example, there is no keyboard shortcut to > insert a reference to an external document or element.)
In theory, you should be able to have both of these in the same document: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd";> <article> <phrase id="myprod">My New Product Name</phrase> <phrase id="otherprod">My Other Product Name</phrase> <title>Test</title> <sect1> <title>Test</title> <para>First product <xi:include href="#myprod" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>.</para> <para>Second product <xi:include href="#otherprod" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>.</para> </sect1> </article> I was not able to make this work. If I load the above into XML mind it complains about an inclusion loop--which doesn't exist as the targets of the inclusion is *not* an ancestor. I also checked with a colleague of mine on the XML Core WG about this and it is correct that this example should work. Alex Milowski FAX: (707) 598-7649 alex at milowski.com "The excellence of grammar as a guide is proportional to the paucity of the inflexions, i.e. to the degree of analysis effected by the language considered." Bertrand Russell in a footnote of Principles of Mathematics
