On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Ross Gardler wrote:
> > This remains uncomfortable, however. There appears to be no way to use
> > XInclude without introducing a new DTD.
>
> That is correct. You can use a DTD that allows the xi:include stuff, or
> we could add it to the XDoc DTD. I think the reason we never added it
> was because we have always intended on moving the internal format over
> to a subset of XHTML2, we would add it at this point.
>
> However, to date we have not done either.
>
> Patches to our DTDs are welcome.
I have defined a DTD which allows me to use XInclude and validate:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
<!ENTITY % local.inline "|xi:include">
<!ENTITY % document PUBLIC
"-//APACHE//ENTITIES Documentation V2.0//EN"
"document-v20.dtd">
%document;
<!ATTLIST document
xmlns:xi CDATA #FIXED "http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude";
>
<!ELEMENT xi:include EMPTY>
<!ATTLIST xi:include
parse (text|xml) "xml"
href CDATA #REQUIRED
encoding CDATA #IMPLIED
>
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
This works for my purposes. I enable XInclusion by using this doctype
instead of document-v20.dtd.
If this were to be done as a patch, I suppose the patch would introduce
a new doctype V2.1, with the xi:include element moved into what would now
be document-v21.mod. This would be added to catalog.xcat.
The exact place(s) where the xi:include element would be permitted might
be an issue to some. I would add it to link-content.mix.
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