1 <refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
2 xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
3 xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
4 xmlns:src="http://nwalsh.com/xmlns/litprog/fragment"
5 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
6 version="5.0" xml:id="textinsert.extension">
8 <refentrytitle>textinsert.extension</refentrytitle>
9 <refmiscinfo class="other" otherclass="datatype">boolean</refmiscinfo>
12 <refname>textinsert.extension</refname>
13 <refpurpose>Enables the textinsert extension element</refpurpose>
16 <src:fragment xml:id="textinsert.extension.frag">
17 <xsl:param name="textinsert.extension" select="1"/>
20 <refsection><info><title>Description</title></info>
21 <para>The textinsert extension element inserts the contents of
22 a file into the result tree (as text).</para>
24 <para>To use the textinsert extension element, you must use
25 either Saxon or Xalan as your XSLT processor (it doesn’t
26 work with xsltproc), along with either the DocBook Saxon
27 extensions or DocBook Xalan extensions (for more
28 information about those extensions, see <link
29 role="tcg" xlink:href="InstallingAProcessor.html#SaxonExtensions"
30 >DocBook Saxon Extensions</link> and <link
31 role="tcg" xlink:href="InstallingAProcessor.html#XalanExtensions"
32 >DocBook Xalan Extensions</link>), and you must set both
33 the <parameter>use.extensions</parameter> and
34 <parameter>textinsert.extension</parameter> parameters to
35 <literal>1</literal>.</para>
36 <para>As an alternative to using the textinsert element,
37 consider using an Xinclude element with the
38 <literal>parse="text"</literal> attribute and value
39 specified, as detailed in <link
40 role="tcg" xlink:href="ExternalCode.html#XIncludeCode"
41 >Using XInclude for text inclusions</link>.</para>
44 <refsection><info><title>See Also</title></info>
45 <para>You can also use the <tag
46 class="xmlpi">dbhtml-include href</tag> processing
47 instruction to insert external files — both files containing
48 plain text and files with markup content (including HTML
51 <refsection><info><title>More information</title></info>
52 <para>For how-to documentation on inserting contents of
53 external code files and other text files into output, see
55 role="tcg" xlink:href="ExternalCode.html"
56 >External code files</link>.</para>
57 <para>For guidelines on inserting contents of
58 HTML files into output, see <link
59 role="tcg" xlink:href="InsertExtHtml.html"
60 >Inserting external HTML code</link>.</para>