Hi Peter,

Our solution does not allow us to use the Xpointer scheme. Because the Xpointer scheme is only a W3 Recommendation, we are relunctant to support it (also, it is difficult to find XML authoring tools that support it).

Thank you, Kate ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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Peter Desjardins <pete...@gmail.com> 07/26/2010 03:51 PM

To Kate...@sybase.com cc DocBook Technical Committee <docb...@lists.oasis-open.org>, docb...@lists.oasis-open.org Subject Re: [docbook] Sections and topics

Hi.

I have had this problem many times also. I was able to make it work by xi:include-ing only the children of the source element. I was resolving the xi:includes using xsltproc so I was able to use xpointers that might not work in other processors.

My xi:includes looked something like this (I can't remember the exact xpointer syntax):

<chapter id="myID"> <xi:include href="file.xml" xpointer="xpointer(/book/chapter/section[@id='myID']/*" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" /> </chapter>

Peter Desjardins