Philippe Nobili wrote: > > We try to find a clean way to include small text files (a couple of > ASCII lines) in <literallayout></literallayout> sections of our DocBook > documents. Of course, we could do this by mouse selections (cut and > paste), but the idea is precisely to avoid having to do this and thus to > be able to update the DocBook file automatically when the text files > change, just by reloading them in XMLMind. > > We though we could use something similar to the image processing > add-ons, but we are not sure... Many thanks in advance for any advice or > hints.
Yes, it would work but fortunately there are more ``natural'' solutions: --> [Solution #1] Use literallayout/textobject/textdata and specify in the fileref attribute of textdata the URL of the file containing the text file. See http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/textdata.html In this case, "DocBook|Convert Document" works out of the box if the extension of text file is: txt|text|htm|html|xml|h|c|cpp|java|js|tcl|py|pl|rb --> [Solution #2] Use XInclude with parse="text" (Requires XXE v4+). More complicated because we don't have a user interface which supports this feature: [1] Insert a literallayout. [2] Select an emphasis (any inline element you can insert in a literallayout is OK) having an ID. [3] Ctrl-Shift-C to copy it as reference. [4] Paste it (Ctrl-V) in the literallayout. Now you have an XInclude *placeholder*. [5] Click in the reference to select it and then use Edit|Reference|Untransclude Reference. [6] Use the Attributes tool to specify the following attributes: href, parse="text", encoding. Also remove the xpointer attribute. See http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/ [7] Use Edit|Reference|Retransclude Reference. http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/editMenu.html#referenceMenu
