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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">
7   <refmeta>
8     <refentrytitle>textinsert.extension</refentrytitle>
9     <refmiscinfo class="other" otherclass="datatype">boolean</refmiscinfo>
10   </refmeta>
11   <refnamediv>
12     <refname>textinsert.extension</refname>
13     <refpurpose>Enables the textinsert extension element</refpurpose>
14   </refnamediv>
15   <refsynopsisdiv>
16     <src:fragment xml:id="textinsert.extension.frag">
17   <xsl:param name="textinsert.extension" select="1"/>
18 </src:fragment>
19   </refsynopsisdiv>
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>
23     <note>
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>
42     </note>
43   </refsection>
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
49       content).</para>
50   </refsection>
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
54       <link
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>
61   </refsection>
62 </refentry>