Camille B?gnis wrote: > > XXE supports xincludes of elements using the xpointer ID reference syntax: > <xi:include href="Inserted.xml" xpointer="id"/>
As simple and standard as it could be, isn't it? > when compiling DocBook 5 documents. > > However I was unable to make this work outside of XXE: > http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/200706/msg00043.html > > do XXE use the patched Xerces as pointed out in this thread or another > parser? > No, XXE does not use Xerces (nor Xalan). It uses XP (and Saxon). And if it happened to use Xerces, it wouldn't rely on this excellent XML parser to properly process XIncludes. In order to process your modular DocBook 5 documents, Xerces needs to [1] to implement the XInclude standard. [2] AND to implement the xml:id standard ** OR to support RELAX NG in order to discover that DocBook 5's xml:id is of type xsd:ID (much harder than support the xml:id standard). I doubt that this is the case. I also doubt that you'll find any tool which satisfies such conditions. However, I would bet on xsltproc (with option --xinclude), try this and tell me if it works. See also: * "Creating modular documents which are highly interchangeable with other applications" http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/user/tutorial_modular_document.html#interchangeable_modular_documents * "The convertdoc command line tool" http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/commands/convertdoc.html (we use this tool outside XXE.)
