On Thursday 31 Mar 2005 20:59, Mark Johnson wrote: > > Does anyone have any experience of these, as they are doing my head in? > > I do. They are used for different purposes, though. xref's are for > cross-referencing: > > http://sagehill.net/docbookxsl/CrossRefs.html#IdrefLinks > > Whereas XIncludes are used to pull another doc into your doc. This provides > an alternative to using the "external file as entity" method, and provides > for greater flexibility in document composition. (e.g. your XIncluded docs > can have prologs) Gotta be careful that your xslt processor knows about > XInclude, though. I believe there's a switch for xsltproc... At any rate, I > again point you to Bob Stayton's "DocBook XSL" as a reference - pretty sure > he covers the essentials: > > http://sagehill.net/docbookxsl/ModularDoc.html#UsingXinclude > > > You might also want to post any specific questions you have to the > docbook-apps list - response time is surprisingly quick. Thank you. I will read those links and join that list too. > > HTH. > > Cheers, > Mark > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Mark Johnson <mjohnson@xxxxxxxxxx> > OS Product Documentation > Engineering, Red Hat, Inc. <http://www.redhat.com> > Tel: 919.754.4151 Fax: 919.754.3708 > GPG fp: DBEA FA3C C46A 70B5 F120 568B 89D5 4F61 C07D E242 -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E ghenry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
