Re: [xml] xinclude on same resource - xpointer="element(c2/1)" fails

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:26:41AM +0100, c3459823592735 arcor de wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I'm using xinclude with xpointer element()-scheme to include an existing element of the same resource at a 
> different location. The following bar.xml gives an example. In cruft-element with ID "c4" I'm including 
> <fnac>a</fnac>. In cruft-element with ID "c5" I'm trying to include <fnac>b</fnac>. In cruft-element "c6" 
> I'm trying to include <fnac>c</fnac> and added therefore a href="bar.xml" to avoid any "Resource Error". 
> I'm doing all this with IDs defined in bar.xsd. Here comes the complete example:
>
> <bar xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
> xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude";
> xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="bar.xsd">
> <fnorb id="snip">
> <cruft id="c1"><fnac>a</fnac></cruft>
> <cruft id="c2"><fnac>b</fnac></cruft>
> <cruft id="c3"><fnac>c</fnac></cruft>
> <cruft id="c4"><xi:include xpointer="element(/1/1/1/1)"/></cruft>
> <cruft id="c5"><xi:include xpointer="element(c2/1)"/></cruft>
> <cruft id="c6"><xi:include href="bar.xml" xpointer="element(c3/1)"/></cruft>
> </fnorb>
> </bar>

  xmllint doesn't do ID ness for XSD based validation as far as I know,
at least not by default whe XIncluding it so your ID won't be found that
way ! Use xml:id it was designed exactly for that.

  Also your second and 3rd espressions are wrong, element(c2/1) will
look for an element named c2 not for an element with an ID of c2.
use id() or @id constructs.

  There are examples in the source tree under test/XPath/xptr/

Daniel

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