Keith C. wrote:
I've been working with Docbook 5 in oxygen, but I've discovered they don't
support XPointer in XIncludes. See this note I sent to their technical support:
I'm wanting to use xpointers in XIncludes as described here:
http://wiki.docbook.org/Using%20XInclude
But when I try, I get the following message in oXygen: W[jing]
SchemeUnsupported: The XPointer scheme 'xpointer' is not supported.
Is there a way to enable XPointer references in XIncludes to allow selection of
content within included documents?
Will XMLMind editor support this XPointer use if we where to switch to
XMLMind's editor?
XMLmind XML Editor (XXE for short) supports a subset of the XPointer
scheme. To make it simple, everything except range-related XPath
extension functions
(http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr-xpointer/#xptr-functions). In other words,
the main use of the XPointer scheme in XXE is to be able to include a
range of sibling nodes in a document.
* If you open a document making use of this subset of the XPointer
scheme, it should work OK.
* There is a very easy, safe, way to insert xincludes making use of the
XPointer scheme in your document:
[a] Use "Options|Preferences", select the "Edit" tab and check "Allow
advanced use of XInclude". This is done once for all. See
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/editOptions.html
[b] In your document select a range of sibling nodes using
"Select|Extend Selection to Following Sibling"
(keyboard shortcut: Esc Left_Arrow; see
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/selectMenu.html).
[c] Select "Edit|Reference|Copy as Reference" (Ctrl+Shift-C) to copy a
reference to the node range.
[d] Depending on the current selection or caret location, use normal
"Edit|Paste Before", "Paste" or "Paste After" (Ctr-U, Ctrl-V or Ctrl-W)
to paste a reference to the node range in your document.
``Paste reference'' tutorial here:
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_tutorial/modular_doc/index.html
* There is no easy way to directly edit an xinclude element from within
XXE. XXE always works in fully transcluded mode. Therefore you need to
first untransclude the xinclude element in order to be able to edit it
at a low-level.
See "Edit|Reference|Untransclude Reference" in
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/referenceMenu.html
You may want to use our Evaluation Edition to check by yourself
everything explained above: http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/download.shtml
This being said, XMLmind XML Editor is very, very, different from
oXygen. If you appreciate oXygen, it is quite unlikely that you'll
appreciate XXE at all (and of course, the other way round).
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