I've come across some documents that are using XInclude to fragment a
larger tech manual. I've got the basic stylesheet working that reads
the document name from the href and then opens it with the doc() function.
In this particular case, I'm able to process the content properly as
the included document has a regular structure that I can process
directly. I got to thinking though that I might need to process these
included files within the context of their use/placement in the
referencing document.
I would like to somehow pass the context in the parent document to
the doc function and possibly the current template mode. Any ideas on
how to do this? I'd also like to process it in one pass. One thought
was to process the parent document and flatten the references, but
that would require at least 2 passes to get the job done.
One area I defiantly got into trouble with my current success is in
regards to the namespace definitions. These included documents have
no use outside the parent document; so I guess this error hasn't been
found because the individual file was not edited without the parent.
Anyway, there was some change tracking markup added via some
add/delete elements in a different namespace. Within the parent the
namespace was defined, but the included file didn't have the
declaration. When this file was passed to the doc function it errored
out because the namespace wasn't defined in the included file.
I fixed this problem by correcting the included file, but if I could
have passed the context (in this case the namespace information) I
wouldn't have had a problem.
..dan
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