Fekete Robert <> writes:
> Having recently moved to docbook 5, I also deeply miss the xpointer()
> scheme.
How did moving to DocBook 5 change anything? It hasn't been "removed"
From DocBook in any sense. Tools that supported it in 4 should also
support it in 5, one imagines.
> The functionality that I sorely miss is the possibility to
> reference a tag using its ID, and xinclude everything that's within
> the referenced tag, except the tag itself:
> <xi:include href="blah.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
> xpointer="xpointer(//note[@id='mynote']/*)"/>
That looks like the xpath() scheme to me.
Be seeing you,
norm
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