RE: [docbook-apps] saxon, xerces, xinclude, and DB5 (was Re: [docbook-apps] trouble using FOP to process FO file generated by Xalan or Saxon)

OK, I guess I was wrong to say that Xerces "completely" supports XInclude.

I'm using Saxon 6.5.3 with Xerces 2.7.0 and it handles xi:include with xpointer fine when I use shorthand pointers to a DTD-determined ID. For example, I have the following chapter in one of my books and Saxon-Xerces has no trouble parsing and transforming the content. As you can see, the chapter has xi:include elements with xpointer attributes.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
                    "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd"
[
<!ENTITY % VoceraEntities SYSTEM "file:///shared/rsrc/text/vocera.ent" >
	%VoceraEntities;
	]>
<chapter id="CSIPARef">
	<title>&BookCSIPA;</title>
	<xi:include  
		href="../cg/ChangingIPAddress.xml"
		xpointer="ChangeIPIntroFirst"
		xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" />
	<xi:include  
		href="../cg/ChangingIPAddress.xml"
		xpointer="ChangeIPEnvironment"
		xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" />
	<xi:include  
		href="../cg/ChangingIPAddress.xml"
		xpointer="ChangeIPSteps"
		xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" />
</chapter>

For more info on using XInclude with Xerces, go here: http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/faq-xinclude.html#faq-8

Regards,
Jeff Powanda

 
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Pawson [mailto:] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 5:19 AM
To: Camille B嶲nis
Cc: apps docbook
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] saxon, xerces, xinclude, and DB5 (was Re: [docbook-apps] trouble using FOP to process FO file generated by Xalan or Saxon)

Camille B嶲nis wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> funny I'm struggling with similar issue.
> 
> I did set up saxon to use Xerces 2.9.0 and while full inclusions like
> 
>   <xi:include href="Inserted.xml"/>
> 
> works, referencing an id with
> 
>   <xi:include href="Inserted.xml" xpointer="para"/>
> 
> doesn't work:
> 
> -------------------

I don't think the Xerces parser fully implements the xpointer stuff 
Camille. Simple xincludes yes, but not partial includes.

regards

-- 
Dave Pawson
XSLT XSL-FO FAQ.
http://www.dpawson.co.uk

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