Oxygen XML Forum

Is support for XInclude planned? We are using XInclude for our document fragments and it would be nice to be able to transform the master document and pull in the fragments.

Thanks,
Darren

Hi,

I would just like to bring this issue up again, yes, XInclude support would be greate.

Here is some documentation on how XInclude can be used with DocBook:
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/ModularDoc.html

And an XInclude engine in Java:
http://xincluder.sourceforge.net/

Thanks,
Marius

Hi Darren and Marius,

We are considering XInclude support for the next release of oXygen. Actually Xerces provides XInclude support since Xerces 2.5.0 which is included in oXygen 2.0.4 but the implementation is experimental. I did not test this but I think that if you set the org.apache.xerces.xni.parser.XMLParserConfiguration property to org.apache.xerces.parsers.XIncludeParserConfiguration then you should already have XInclude support, see http://xml.apache.org/xerces2-j/faq-xni.html#faq-2 for how to overwrite the default parser configuration for Xerces. You may also look at http://xml.apache.org/xerces2-j/faq-xinclude.html .

Best Regards,
George

Thanks George,

I tried using XInclude in oXygen 2.0.4 as you suggested and it worked fine!

A few comments:

• the property you mention should be set as a JVM system property on the command that starts the JVM
• one way to set the property is in oxygen.bat by adding

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  -Dorg.apache.xerces.xni.parser.XMLParserConfiguration=org.apache.xerces.parsers.XIncludeParserConfiguration

  to the java command
• another way is by editing oxygen.lax (if you use oxygen.exe) and by adding the same argument to

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  lax.nl.java.option.additional

• in your posting the property value has a small typo (xerses instead of xerces), be careful if you copy and paste

Marius

Hi Marius,

I edited my previous message to fix the typo.

Thanks,
George