Re: [xml] include XML file in another XML file

[Thomas Schraitle <tom_schr web de>]

Hi,

> On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Thomas Schraitle wrote:
> [..]
> > Hope that helps.
>
> Thank you. I'll try above.
>
> Sorry but I'm still interested answer on quesion about Solaris XML
> man pan pages correctnes :)

Sorry, but I don't know.


> More detailed example from Solaris below. Both files as you see have
> DOCTYPE. Can you look on this ?

As far as I can see from a quick look it is not well-formed:

--- gdm.1 file ---
<!DOCTYPE REFENTRY PUBLIC
"-//Sun Microsystems//DTD DocBook V3.0-Based
 SolBook Subset V2.0//EN"
...
------------------

You can't have the DOCTYPE declaration here, if you include this file from 
"gdmchooser.1".


> How it can be correct if in document only one time can be used DOCTYPE
> ? :>


As I explained in my last mail, the XML specification defines it this way. 
For example if you have a "main file" which includes several other files 
like this:

 main.xml
   a.xml
   b.xml
   c.xml

Again, every file which is included from main.xml can't have _any_ DOCTYPE 
declaration! Except "main.xml" of course. Unfortunatly I can't find the 
text in the XML specification at the moment.


> And/or this files only look like correct and all "magick" is in 
> man tool which know how to correctly parse this files (?). Is it
> possible ?

I don't understand what you mean. Could you explain it again?

One tip:
Before you try to transform your text from XML into something other 
useful, you should validate it with xmllint. It is senseless to apply 
stylesheets to invalid or not well-formed XML files.

Do one step (validation) and if this is successfull do the other 
(transformation). The other way around doesn't work.

Tom

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Thomas Schraitle <tom_schr web de>