Re: DOCBOOK: PCDATA: include section of xml ?

[Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>]

/ Alan Short <ashort@ilexgroup.com> was heard to say:
| hi 
| 
| i'm creating a docbook document using docbook.dsl
| 
| I would like to include a section of xml within the document.
| 
| ie.	
| 
| <?xml version="1.0" ?>
| <ixSchema name="VR" description="Virtual Reality">

I think the answer to what you're asking is:

<example><title>...</title>
<programlisting><![CDATA[<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<ixSchema name="VR" description="Virtual Reality">
...]]></programlisting>
</example>

In particular, you have to put <![CDATA[ ... ]]> around the markup in
your program listing. Otherwise, the XML parser sees the tags and thinks
they're supposed to be part of DocBook, which they aren't.

If you can't use <!CDATA[ (because the thing you're including uses it,
for example), you'll have to escape all the '<' and '&' characters by hand:

<example><title>...</title>
<programlisting>&lt;?xml version="1.0" ?>
&lt;ixSchema name="VR" description="Virtual Reality">
...</programlisting>
</example>

Hope that helps.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

-- 
Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>      | Wink at small faults; for thou has
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | great ones.--Thomas Fuller (II)
Chair, DocBook Technical Committee |

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