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[Gavin Henry]

Dear all,

Does anyone have any experience of these, as they are doing my head in?

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[Mark Johnson]

>  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.

HTH.

Cheers,
Mark

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[Gavin Henry]

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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>  Mark Johnson                     <mjohnson(a)redhat.com&gt;
>  OS Product Documentation
>  Engineering, Red Hat, Inc.       <http://www.redhat.com>
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>  GPG fp: DBEA FA3C C46A 70B5 F120  568B 89D5 4F61 C07D E242 
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Kind Regards,

Gavin Henry.
Managing Director.

T [phone]
M [phone]
F [phone]
E ghenry(a)suretecsystems.com

Open Source. Open Solutions(tm).

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