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Hi,



I am struggling to resolve Docbook documents with xi:include statements that
specify a xpointer attribute. What XML parser is best suited for that job
(we reference by id)?



Thanks in advance for your help.


Fabrice

I use xmllint as a pre-processor. I haven't used
it to reference by id, myself, but it resolves all
sorts of other xpointer references with no problem,
so I'm pretty sure it will work fine with ids.

Dick Hamilton

Managing Writers: A Real World Guide to Managing Technical Documentation
http://xmlpress.net/managingwriters.html

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Subject: [docbook-apps] What XML parser for xpointer?



Hi,



I am struggling to resolve Docbook documents with xi:include statements
that specify a xpointer attribute. What XML parser is best suited for
that job (we reference by id)?



Thanks in advance for your help.


Fabrice

I use xmllint to resolve xi:includes before publishing the resolved
files. My xi:includes also reference elements by ID. There's a note
describing levels of support for xpointer on this page:

http://wiki.docbook.org/topic/DocBookCookbook

Peter

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 1:44 AM, Fabrice (GMail)
<fabrice.talbot@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am struggling to resolve Docbook documents with xi:include statements that
> specify a xpointer attribute. What XML parser is best suited for that job
> (we reference by id)?

Xerces also has some support for XPointer, for details you can see
http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/faq-xinclude.html#faq-8

Referencing by IDs works in Xerces if you have a DTD or an XML Schema
associated with the file.
In oXygen we patched Xerces to add also support for handling xml:id as
ID even without a DTD or XML Schema - that covers using DocBook 5 with
the Relax NG schema as in that case there is no DTD or XML Schema to
annotate the xml:id as an ID type.
That patch is recorded here:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XERCESJ-1113

Best Regards,
George
--
George Cristian Bina
<oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
http://www.oxygenxml.com


Peter Desjardins wrote:
> I use xmllint to resolve xi:includes before publishing the resolved
> files. My xi:includes also reference elements by ID. There's a note
> describing levels of support for xpointer on this page:
>
> http://wiki.docbook.org/topic/DocBookCookbook
>
> Peter
>
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 1:44 AM, Fabrice (GMail)
> <fabrice.talbot@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am struggling to resolve Docbook documents with xi:include statements that
>> specify a xpointer attribute. What XML parser is best suited for that job
>> (we reference by id)?
>
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