Re: [xml] Identifying the source file for an xi inclusion

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:23:09PM -0800, Marc Munro wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-01-31 at 08:12 +0100, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 01:50:52PM -0800, Marc Munro wrote:
> > > I am processing a document which contains nested inclusions using
> > > xi:include.  How can I tell the source file from which a given node was
> > > included into the document?
> >
> >   Not always possible, for example if you XInclude a text node, well
> > there is little to help. But you can use 2 things:
> >   xml:base attribute left by the xinclude process, if you ask for the
> >     base at a given included point, you may get the proper URI
> >     if there was room left to put the base attribute at the inclusion
> >     point (i.e. on an element)
> >   the XInclude process also turns the original xi:include element into
> >     an XML_XINCLUDE_START node with all attributes left and also add
> >     an XML_XINCLUDE_END after the included element(s)
>
> I thought I'd try figuring out the URI the hard way and so traversed to
> the XML_XINCLUDE_START node for the inclusion.  I was hoping to find the
> href attribute saved there but instead find no attributes at all.

  The XML_XINCLUDE_START node is really the old xi:xinclude node just
changed to be of the new type, really all informations should be there,
though the attribute reading API may not work because the node type
is not XML_ELEMENT_NODE ... check directly the ->properties list.

Daniel

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