a question about the use of XInclude in TEI documents.

Martin Mueller <[email protected]> Sun, 29 Jan 2017 21:18:01 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.text.tei.general
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I am puzzled by the use of Xinclude in TEI . Given a minimal TEI document
with a 
body

<body>
<p>some text</p>
</body>

I can add as a right sibling to <p>:

<lg>
<l>Mary had a little lamb</l>
<l>Its fleece was white as snow</l>
</lg>

The resulting document will validate. If I now try to replace the <lg>
element with an XInclude command like

<body>
<p>some text</p>
 <xi:include 
href="http://panini.northwestern.edu/mmueller/littlelamb2.xml"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
</body>


oXygen gives me  a validating error message about <lg> not being allowed
in this position. On the other hand, a transformation will produce the
correct result.

Am I doing something wrong or is the error message in error?

I looked in the Guidelines for help with XInclude. A search for the term
leads you to a section on stand-off markup, which is not very helpful to
non-technical users like myself. There is no example of the most obvious
case (including a TEI fragment like the <lg> element above). In
particular, there is no help with the how, what, and where of required
namespaces, which I always find a particularly tricky thing to get right.
A little tutorial on the TEI Wiki would be helpful, and I'd be happy to
help with writing it if somebody with a clearer understanding could point
the way. 







Martin Mueller
Professor emeritus of English and Classics
Northwestern University