Hello Stefan,
Am Sonntag, 14. April 2013, 14:08:03 schrieb Stefan Seefeld:
> [...]
> <variablelist>
> <xi:include href="../vsip/signal.xml"
>
> xpointer="xmlns(db=http://docbook.org/ns/docbook)xpointer(//db:varlistentry[
> @xml:id='foo'])"/> ...
> </variablelist>
If I'm not mistaken, you can simplify the above xpointer expression as
xpointer(id(foo))
Not sure if this scheme is supported, but it maybe worth a try. Maybe you need
quotes for id(...) so try both notations.
> This works well, but introduces a lot of redundancy as for each chunk
> I'd like to include I have to redefine the namespace used in the xpath
> expression. Is there a way to avoid that, by making this the default in
> some way ? If I just leave out the xmlns() I get an error as the
> xpointer can't be resolved.
> (I'm using xsltproc to process the DB documents.)
I don't think you can avoid the namespace. Have you tried entities? You could
define a entity (let's say "dbxmlns") inside the internal subset of the DTD:
<!DOCTYPE chapter
[
<!ENTITY dbxmlns "xmlns(db=http://docbook.org/ns/docbook)">
]>
and use it like this:
<xi:include href="../vsip/signal.xml"
xpointer="&dbxmlns;xpointer(id(foo))"/>
Entites are resolved before any xinclude processing is done. If this works, I
think this should be compact enough. ;)
--
Gruß/Regards
Thomas Schraitle
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