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Issue 493 Hint about preprocessing modular DocBook (Ch. 4) #495

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Hint about preprocessing modular DocBook (Ch. 4)
fsteimke Mar 18, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -610,6 +610,13 @@ attribute to the root element (if it doesn’t already have one).</para>
If it isn’t preserved, relative references to other documents will be resolved against
the static base URI of the stylesheet and not the URI of the original document. That’s
unlikely to be correct.</para>
<para>You must also take into account that no XInclude processing has taken place at this time.
If you are using modular DocBook, the <parameter>transform-original</parameter> pipeline is usually a bad choice,
because it only operates on the root document, but not on the fragments referenced by XInclude.
If it is absolutely necessary to use a <parameter>transform-original</parameter> pipeline together with modular DocBook,
you can use Saxons <code>-x</code> switch to enable XInclude when parsing the document (see <xref linkend="java-main" xrefstyle="%label"/>).
Otherwise, however, the transform-before pipeline is usually the better choice
for modular DocBook documents<indexterm><primary>Modular DocBook</primary><secondary>processing pipelines</secondary></indexterm>.</para>
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