Re: Generating TOCs or overviews?

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Can
> the complete files be concatenated, XML declaration and DOCTYPE
> declaration and all?

Your original message said 

> We concat all files, surround them with a start and end tag (to make
> it valid XML)

which implies that your original files _don't_ have DOCTYPE (as otherwise
the simple concatenation you propose isn't valid).

If the original files do not have DOCTYPE (so you can make a large
XML file including them all) you do not need to actually concatenate
them, your `big' document can just include the smaller ones via entity
references. (However I have in the past used cat together with
a header and footer file to add the enclosing element, as that is
simpler (but wasteful of space) than writing the entity references).

However since XSL applications supporting the document() function are
now available you have a probably better alternative of just traversing
the separate documents from your stylesheet by using the document
function. This will work even if your source documents are really
separet documents with their own XML declaration and DOCTYPE.

David


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