<html><head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>dbhtml-include_href</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../reference.css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.79.2"><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="DocBook XSL Stylesheets: Reference Documentation"><link rel="up" href="pi-html.html" title="Part 1. HTML Processing Instruction Reference"><link rel="prev" href="dbfunclist.html" title="dbfunclist"><link rel="next" href="dbhh.html" title="dbhh"><link rel="copyright" href="copyright.html" title="License"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">dbhtml-include_href</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dbfunclist.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Part 1. HTML Processing Instruction Reference</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dbhh.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="refentry"><a name="dbhtml-include_href"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>dbhtml-include_href</h2><p>dbhtml-include_href — Copies an external well-formed HTML/XML file into current doc</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><pre class="synopsis"><code class="sgmltag-xmlpi"><?dbhtml-include href="<em class="replaceable"><code>URI</code></em>"?></code></pre></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="d0e31419"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>Use the <code class="sgmltag-xmlpi"><?dbhtml-include href?></code> PI anywhere in a document to cause the contents of the file referenced by the <code class="code">href</code> pseudo-attribute to be copied/inserted “as is” into your HTML output at the point in document order where the PI occurs in the source.</p><div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Note</h3><p>The referenced file may contain plain text (as long as it is “wrapped” in an <code class="sgmltag-element">html</code> element — see the note below) or markup in any arbitrary vocabulary, including HTML — but it must conform to XML well-formedness constraints (because the feature in XSLT 1.0 for opening external files, the <code class="function">document()</code> function, can only handle files that meet XML well-formedness constraints).</p><p>Among other things, XML well-formedness constraints require a document to have <span class="emphasis"><em>a single root element</em></span>. So if the content you want to include is plain text or is markup that does <span class="emphasis"><em>not</em></span> have a single root element, <span class="strong"><strong>wrap the content in an <code class="sgmltag-element">html</code> element</strong></span>. The stylesheets will strip out that surrounding <code class="sgmltag-element">html</code> “wrapper” when they find it, leaving just the content you want to insert.</p></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="d0e31456"></a><h2>Parameters</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"><dt><span class="term">href="<em class="replaceable"><code>URI</code></em>"</span></dt><dd><p>Specifies the URI for the file to include; the URI can be, for example, a remote <code class="literal">http:</code> URI, or a local filesystem <code class="literal">file:</code> URI</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="d0e31475"></a><h2>Related Global Parameters</h2><p><em class="parameter"><code>textinsert.extension</code></em></p></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="d0e31481"></a><h2>Related Information in <a class="link" href="http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/" target="_top">DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide</a></h2><p><a class="link" href="InsertExtHtml.html" target="_top">Inserting external HTML code</a>, <a class="link" href="ExternalCode.html" target="_top">External code files</a></p></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dbfunclist.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="pi-html.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dbhh.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">dbfunclist </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> dbhh</td></tr></table></div></body></html>