[generguide-devel] Just an idea

[Artur H. <ko...@pl...>]

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Well,

I started to work on documentation, read what we have done
and again search information about XML.

Some time ago I had concern how to have one common 
document info included in each file such as:
author, copyright and some other info but don't have this
info repeated in master document at the beginning
of each section in target format.

The more I would like to be able to publish also
each part as separate document and then, of course,
I want this document info to be displayed.

Now, I think I found a solution with use of xinclude and xpath.
Let's assume we have or parts of our documentation in 
following form:

(samplefile.xml)
<section>
	<sectioninfo>
		<authorgroup>
		</authorgroup>
		<date>
		</date>
		<copyrigth>
		</copyright>
	</sectioninfo>
	<title></title>
	<abstract></abstract>
	<para></para>
	<para></para>
	<para></para>
	<'all other elements'/>
	<sectio></section>
	<sectio></section>
	<sectio></section>
</section>

Now we want to include in master document everything apart from
<sectioninfo/> element with it's content.
We can include content of above document apart from <sectioninfo/>
with following command:
<xi:include  
href="samplefile.xml#xpointer(/section/*[name()!='sectioninfo']/descendant-or-self::*)"
 xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" /> 

But above command includes only content of section - root element.
If you want to have it as separate section in master document you have to
embrace above command with <section> element.

Artur
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