On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 09:10:07AM +0100, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:
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> Jeff Turner wrote, On 06/02/2003 2.34:
> >On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 01:20:28AM +0100, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:
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> >>Replying myself. Found a doc that explains it.
> >>http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/07/31/xinclude.html?page=2
> >
> >...
> 
> ...
> >>Possibility: plug in an xinclude step before the validation. There is an 
> >>xinclude task somewhere, if not we can make it.
> >
> >Problem is, whatever tool does the xinclude preprocessing will need to
> >use a parser, and when that parser encounters the DOCTYPE declaration it
> >will try to validate the XML :)
> 
> Even non-validating? IIRC when you have a DTD, it always reads it, but 
> for entities. Validation is a further step.

Ah yes, I'm talking rubbish.  Non-validating should work.

> >That is, unless the xinclude tool uses XNI directly, or fiddles with the
> >bytestream before and after parsing:
> >
> >http://doctypechanger.sourceforge.net/
> >
> >I think the best solution is to modify the DTD to allow xi:include.  The
> >Docbook book has some info on this process:
> >
> >http://docbook.org/tdg/en/html/ch05.html
> >
> >I don't think there are any better solutions, so long as we're hanging
> >onto DTDs.  Even the latest version of Docbook has declared SVG, MathML
> >and HTML forms in the DTD, rather than abandon DTDs altogether.
> 
> Ahhh.
> 
> Well, I think that including xinclude ;-) in the DTDs is a reasonable 
> thing, and one of the possible solutions. The fact is that I don't like 
> much fiddleing with other DTDs, and since users might want to make their 
> own DTD /and/ pretend to have xinclude working, maybe a pre-xinclude 
> step would ease things.

Looks like Joerg is right, and the XNI XInclude thingy is the best
immediate solution.

> Dunno, both seem ok... I'll see if I can do something with a 
> pre-xinclude. Maybe it will just slow down things and be a mess or it 
> will be simply to hard to do, I don't wnat to spend too much time on it, 
> if it takes too much, I'll include it in the DTD.

+1 

> BTW, is everyone ok if I put xinclude in the processing (just to be sure)?

+1

--Jeff

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> Nicola Ken Barozzi                   nicolaken@apache.org
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