Thanks for your clarifications. See below for some additional questions/comments.
Hussein Shafie wrote: > Do *not* use olinks. olinks should be reserved to linking deliverables > which are part of the same set of documents. This is very different from > a modular document. > Ok. > Use xref and link elements and type the linkend attribute as if the > document module was part of the master document. XXE currently provides > no assistance in doing that. You are currently forced to know the link > targets ``by heart''. > This was my first attempt, but I quickly lost track of the id:s. And I am not sure that I got it to produce correct links, but since you confirm that it works I will try again. I guess that one problem with this approach is that the individual document parts won't validate since the linked id:s cannot be resolved locally? > >> * Are there any good tutorial style web resources on modular documents >> and cross-referencing (using xxe)? >> Perhaps you could add some cross-document links to your modular example documents to illustrate the proposed practice? > --> Now, the good news. XXE v4.6 will have a "Link tool". This new tool > should solve the following problem: quickly and easily create links in > modular documents. > This sounds very promising. I guess we will wait with marking up cross referencing until this version becomes available. Is there any estimate on release date (roughly)? Would be good to know if it is 1 month, 6 months, or a year. > This new tool will use ``master documents'' as ``link contexts''. > Will this mean that each document module (file) is validated? > A master document is: > > * Any XML document making use of XIncludes. > Such as a docbook book file with XIncludes? > * OR A DITA map or bookmap. > > * OR A synthetic map, mapping unique identifiers to DocBook documents. > This should allow to quickly insert olinks. > I don't fully understand this one. Something similar to docbook master target database sitemaps? > (Of course you'll have to use the same identifiers in the target database.) > > Thanks for your excellent help. Best regards, Magnus -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: magnus_gafvert.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 295 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.xmlmind.com/pipermail/xmleditor-support/attachments/20091202/6aa64223/attachment.bin
