XIncludes and href

Gavin Henry ghenry at suretecsystems.com
Thu Mar 31 21:24:28 UTC 2005


On Thursday 31 Mar 2005 20:59, Mark Johnson wrote:
> > Does anyone have any experience of these, as they are doing my head in?
>
> I do. They are used for different purposes, though. xref's are for
> cross-referencing:
>
> http://sagehill.net/docbookxsl/CrossRefs.html#IdrefLinks
>
> Whereas XIncludes are used to pull another doc into your doc. This provides
> an alternative to using the "external file as entity" method, and provides
> for greater flexibility in document composition. (e.g. your XIncluded docs
> can have prologs) Gotta be careful that your xslt processor knows about
> XInclude, though. I believe there's a switch for xsltproc... At any rate, I
> again point you to Bob Stayton's "DocBook XSL" as a reference - pretty sure
> he covers the essentials:
>
> http://sagehill.net/docbookxsl/ModularDoc.html#UsingXinclude
>
>
> You might also want to post any specific questions you have to the
> docbook-apps list - response time is surprisingly quick.

Thank you. I will read those links and join that list too.

>
> HTH.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>
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