XML parser Xinclude support for XML schema's Id

[colibrisson]

Hello,

I'm using <oXygen/> XML Editor 18.1.

I have some issues referencing part of an XML file by its Id using the XInclude element() scheme. I read somewhere that it's because Xerces doesn't support XML Schema Id. Is there another XML parser that offers a better support for XInclude?

Thanks in advance,

Colin

[Radu]

Hi Colin,

If in the referenced document you have a Docbook section with an xml:id like this:

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<sect1 xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0"

    xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:id="sid">

...........

then the xpointer would need to look like this:

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<xi:include href="section1.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" xpointer="sid"/>

So to refer an element by ID, you just place the ID value in the xpointer attribute.

Regards,
Radu

[colibrisson]

Hi Radu,

The problem is that Xerces' XInclude processor - or maybe more accurately Xerces's XPointer processor - doesn't seem to recognize the Id attributes or elements declared in XML Schema. I have tried to use XPointer's element() scheme in order reference Id with xs:ID and xs:anyUri types but none of them were recognized while the child sequence is working find. Is there another parser using a processor supporting XML Schema Id type?

[Radu]

Hi,

Maybe you could google and see if you can find other implementations of XInclude XPointer, I do not know of any but they might and probably exist.
In my opinion, even if they are they probably do not parse the XML Schema associated with the XML to detect the types of each attribute.
Even if they exist, they cannot be tightly coupled with Oxygen so even if you create a command line to validate and publish your XML, Oxygen will still show errors when validation the file.

Regards,
Radu

[colibrisson]

Thank you !