resolve xinclude through catalog

[Krille]

Hi,

my team has a large project with files in many subfolders. We'd like to use XInclude for including common stuff from a file called Vokabular.xml which lives in the project root.

Including with relative works fine when creating new files via templates. The following complex XPath expression gets expanded to a correct relative path in the project folder structure:

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<xi:include href="${xpath_eval(concat( string-join((tokenize(replace(substring-after('${cfdu}', '${pdu}'), '^/', ''), '/') ! '../'), ''), 'Vokabular.xml') )}" xpointer="encodingDesc"/>

But this technique is not robust against moving the files to an other folder level. That's why we'd prefer resolving the included stuff through a catalog file.

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<xi:include href="http://wwu.de/ArabistikIslam/ALEA/Vokabular.xml" xpointer="encodingDesc"/>

Here is the catalog entry (from ${pdu}/resources/catalog.xml):

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<uriSuffix uriSuffix="ALEA/Vokabular.xml" uri="../Vokabular.xml"/>

But the include fails. I set the logging to verbose and the related
message are:

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Description: Could not resolve PublicID: [null] SystemID: [http://wwu.de/ArabistikIslam/ALEA/Vokabular.xml]
Description: Resolved URI: [http://wwu.de/ArabistikIslam/ALEA/Vokabular.xml]	[file:/home/clueck/Projekte/edition-ibn-nubatah/Vokabular.xml]
Description: Could not resolve PublicID: [null] SystemID: [http://wwu.de/ArabistikIslam/ALEA/Vokabular.xml]

What's going wrong here?

Kind regards,
Christian

[Radu]

Hi Christian,

In the same XML catalog file can you also add a system suffix mapping like:

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<systemSuffix systemIdSuffix="ALEA/Vokabular.xml" uri="../Vokabular.xml"/>

?
Also these relative paths that you specify in the XML catalog like ../Vokabular.xml are interpreted relative to the location of the XML catalog file.

Regards,
Radu

[Krille]

Hi Radu,

great, that works. Thank you!

Regards,
Christian