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Re: Linking in DocBook V5.0
- From: Jirka Kosek <jirka at kosek dot cz>
- To: Adam Turoff <ziggy at panix dot com>
- Cc: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 17:54:29 +0100
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Linking in DocBook V5.0
- List-id: <docbook.lists.oasis-open.org>
- References: <87eln1z68h.fsf@nwalsh.com> <20011114113730.A9953@panix.com>
Adam Turoff wrote:
>
> There's a reasonably good case for making block elements such as section
> and chapter take xlinks as well; it makes it easier to compose larger
> works from smaller works without resorting to defining entities in the
> local subset, especially when using xlink:show="embed".
>
> (Perhaps this means that there are a class of elements where xlink:show
> is only meaningful if it is xlink:show="embed"...)
I think that show="embed" is used for including separate objects in
on-line presentation. If you want to split your document into several
files you should use entities or XInclude (with parse="xml") langauge.
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