Hi,
The dpawson page you referenced is quite long, so
it wasn't clear to me what solution you were referring to.
It sounds like you want to use the xpointer
scheme in the xpointer attribute of an XInclude so that you can use an XPath
expression to select content. I don't know of a Java processor that
handles the xpointer scheme. It was never completed as a W3C
standard. The only implementation that I know of is in libxml2, in the
tools xsltproc and xmllint, but that kit is not written in Java.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
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From:
Mimil Mimil
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Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 9:47
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Subject: [docbook-apps] Pure XSLT
XInclude & XPointer in Docbook 5
Hi everybody,
I am wondering if the solution provided at
this page (http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/include.html)
is working for the last DocBook specifications (DocBook 5). I haven't yet
tested but if somebody already does I would be happy to know else I will give
it a try myself.
In reality I am trying to find the best way to get
XInclude/XPoint working on Java based implementations. And as many Java users
(I think) we have problem to get a full java tool chain for generating
documents from DocBook fragments.
As I could see java parsers are a bit
weak on these 2 *standards* (maybe not their fault). So here are the 2
remaining solutions to explore:
- preprocess the XInclude/XPoint before
parsing - I don't know yet which java tool is the best in such case for
DocBook 5
- use a pure XSLT preprocess - As described in the
link
So, what are your advices?
Thank you
all,
Regards,
Mimil
