Reference for XIncludes

[Karsten Wade]

On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 18:22 -0600, Tommy Reynolds wrote:
> Uttered Karsten Wade <kwade at redhat.com>, spake thus:
> 
> > > If I read the signs aright, the 
> > > 	http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude
> > > namespace has been depreciated in favor of the
> > > 	http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude 
> > > namespace.
> > > Is that correct?
> > That is how I read it from this page:
> > http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/ModularDoc.html
> 
> Gack.  A real case of YMMV, I guess.
> 
> It's a pity that the DocBook DTD won't let you put the xmlns:xi="..."
> declaration just anywhere.  Requiring that whole <xi:include
> href="..." xmlns:xi="..."/> declaration every time is clumsy.  
> 
> Oh, well, these things happen.

Not only that, but ... doesn't this make it impossible to validate or
build the document when unable to reach that URI?

We might make it a policy of using a copy of the 2001/XInclude within
docs-common/common.  I don't see a local copy of it within Fedora.

- Karsten
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