Re: a question about the use of XInclude in TEI documents.

Matthew Davis <[email protected]> Sun, 29 Jan 2017 16:32:58 -0500
Newsgroups	gmane.text.tei.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
Martin -

I implemented an XInclude in some of my files in fold in some general editorial notes so I could display them multiple times but wouldn’t have to repeat them across multiple files.  What I did to do that is format it something like this:

        <xi:include href="Quis_Dabit/Clopton_Editorial.xml" xpointer="EditNotes" parse="xml">
            <xi:fallback>
                <para>
                    <emphasis>The editorial notes were not collected.  Please check the xml wrapper to ensure it is pointing to the right location.<br/></emphasis>
                </para>
            </xi:fallback>
        </xi:include>

That xpointer and parse attributes are the pieces I think you may be missing.  You may not need the xpointer piece if you’re taking the whole file, but I do believe you’ll need the parse section.

I did get some validation errors from Oxygen, but running my xslt on the file resulted in correct html, so I think the fault may lie in Oxygen there. So I would suggest running the xslt and seeing if you get the expected result, and if not then incorporate the parse attribute, and then the xpointer attribute.

All the best,
—Matt

> On Jan 29, 2017, at 4:18 PM, Martin Mueller <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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