Hi Jirka, Very nice. I think the challenge will be to get tools vendors to add support for it so that you can see the transcluded content in the editor.
I'd been bugging XMetaL to add support for xinclude for a long time. About the time I learned that XMetaL 6 would have support for xincludes, I also learned that you guys were considering a new transclusion mechanism. To some degree, <ref> is really a variant of <xi:include> with extensions related to id handling and a simplified means of referencing the target resource, so perhaps editor support can be achieved by extending their xinclude support. Thanks, David -----Original Message----- From: Jirka Kosek [mailto:ji...@kosek.cz] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 6:14 AM To: Cramer, David W (David) Cc: 'docbook@lists.oasis-open.org' Subject: Re: [docbook] RE: Sections and topics Cramer, David W (David) wrote: > In skimming the TC meeting minutes, I recall also some mention of > transclusion that also addresses some of these problems. Is the > modular content work related to that or a separate project? No, at least not at this point because DocBook transclusions are at very early stage of development. But if this would be reasonable we will try to unify both technologies as much as possible. > Do you > know if the transclusion work would be an extension of xinclude or > something different? It will be different because XInclude has many usability and technical problems. See latest transclusion proposal: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/201007/msg00041.html But it is still work in progress which can be changed, thrown away, ... you have been warned. Jirka -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jirka Kosek e-mail: ji...@kosek.cz http://xmlguru.cz ------------------------------------------------------------------ Professional XML consulting and training services DocBook customization, custom XSLT/XSL-FO document processing ------------------------------------------------------------------ OASIS DocBook TC member, W3C Invited Expert, ISO JTC1/SC34 member ------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-h...@lists.oasis-open.org
