[xml] Trouble using XInclude

["Mick Baggen" <mick baggen technolution nl>]

Hello,

I'm using xmllint (fomr the libxml2-2.6.3.win32 distribution) on a Windows
2000 Platform. Especially, I'm trying to get the --xinclude option working
as I intend it. However, this does not work. Let me explain the problem:

1. I've got a file called book.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<book xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude";>
        <xi:include href="chapters.xml"
xpointer="xpointer(//chapter[ id='ch1'])"/>
</book>

2. The file chapters.xml contains

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<chapters>
<chapter id="ch1">
<title>chapter 1</title>
</chapter>
<chapter id="ch2">
<title>chapter 2</title>
</chapter>
</chapters>

3. My intention is to merge the first chapter (with id="ch1") in the file
book.xml, so it would have to look like

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<book xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude";>
<chapter id="ch1">
<title>chapter 1</title>
</chapter>
</book>

Omitting the added xml:base attribute.

4. However, the result that i'm obtaining is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<book xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude";>

<chapters>
<chapter id="ch1">
<title>chapter 1</title>
</chapter>
<chapter id="ch2">
<title>chapter 2</title>
</chapter>
</chapters>

</book>

So everything is incorporated, not just the one chapter.

Please help me. What am I doing wrong ?


Sincerely yours,

Mick Baggen
Principal Consultant
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