Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: XInclude, XSLTProc, and entityref

[John Fleck <jfleck at inkstain dot net>]

On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 07:57, Jeff Beal wrote:
> I'm trying to use XSLTProc to "flatten" a file using XInclude, then pass
> this file through Saxon to create my online help.  I first used just the
> xmllint parser to parse the file, and noticed that none of the graphic
> entities were declared, so I decided to write an XSLT stylesheet to convert
> all entityrefs to filerefs.  This stylesheet works perfectly on the
> XIncluded files themselves, but it fails to resolve the entityrefs on the
> same files when they are XIncluded into a larger document.  I end up with a
> bunch of fileref="" in my resulting XML file.  The weird thing is that all
> entityrefs resolve normally when using the DocBook stylesheets.
> 
> My template in question is:
>   <xsl:template match="@entityref">
>     <xsl:attribute name="fileref">
>       <xsl:value-of select="unparsed-entity-uri(.)"/>
>     </xsl:attribute>
>   </xsl:template>
> 
> Can anybody see what it is that I'm doing wrong?
> 

When you use xsltproc, are you using the --xinclude flag? 

"--xinclude
              Process  the  input  document  using the Xinclude
              specification."

Cheers,
John
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