Jeff Hooker wrote: > Fair enough; allow me to add my usecase for your future consideration. > > My CMS vendor's virtual drive plugin supports automatic checkout/checkin of > the xinclude elements. If I encounter an Xinclude, and I select the "Edit > Referenced Document" option, the referenced document is automatically checked > out for editing and is checked back when the document is closed. Very > convenient and it does indeed ease collaborative authoring. > > However, some of my docbook documents are extremely long, and authors make > heavy use of xref elements. Once we have broken the document into xincludes, > it becomes extremely inconvienent to form xrefs between the various xinclude > documents. If XMLmind picked up the fact that the document was read/write on > the local drive, my users would be able to manually check out the parts of > the document that they wanted to work with, and then open the master document > and happily xref away. >
The xref problem in modular documents annoys us here at XMLmind as much as your authors. We are committed to solve it simply and elegantly in the near future.
