On Friday 27 October 2006 14:07, Michael(tm) Smith wrote:
> I suspect that the content-reuse/modular-authoring proponents
> would not be happy with Part, because like Chapter and Section, it
> implies some larger document or sequence.
>
> Or maybe it doesn't.
I can't see the problem with modularity. XInclude and XPointer enable
virtually any node to be included by reference in a document. That is
providing that it is valid to include at that position, not break the valid
rule.
Take this as a basic example:
<section>
<title>Inter Account Transfer</title>
<xi:include href="../mods/inter-account-transfer.xml" \
xpointer="xpointer(//section)" \
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
<xi:fallback>
<para>FIX ME</para>
</xi:fallback>
</xi:include>
</section>
Using the possabilities of XPointer provides an excellent solution for modular
docbook.
I have also just started experimenting with XQuery to assemble document
objects into complete documents. The possabilities are endless.
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