<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
xmlns:src="http://nwalsh.com/xmlns/litprog/fragment"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="5.0" xml:id="textinsert.extension">
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>textinsert.extension</refentrytitle>
<refmiscinfo class="other" otherclass="datatype">boolean</refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>textinsert.extension</refname>
<refpurpose>Enables the textinsert extension element</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<src:fragment xml:id="textinsert.extension.frag">
<xsl:param name="textinsert.extension" select="1"/>
</src:fragment>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsection><info><title>Description</title></info>
<para>The textinsert extension element inserts the contents of
a file into the result tree (as text).</para>
<note>
<para>To use the textinsert extension element, you must use
either Saxon or Xalan as your XSLT processor (it doesn’t
work with xsltproc), along with either the DocBook Saxon
extensions or DocBook Xalan extensions (for more
information about those extensions, see <link
role="tcg" xlink:href="InstallingAProcessor.html#SaxonExtensions"
>DocBook Saxon Extensions</link> and <link
role="tcg" xlink:href="InstallingAProcessor.html#XalanExtensions"
>DocBook Xalan Extensions</link>), and you must set both
the <parameter>use.extensions</parameter> and
<parameter>textinsert.extension</parameter> parameters to
<literal>1</literal>.</para>
<para>As an alternative to using the textinsert element,
consider using an Xinclude element with the
<literal>parse="text"</literal> attribute and value
specified, as detailed in <link
role="tcg" xlink:href="ExternalCode.html#XIncludeCode"
>Using XInclude for text inclusions</link>.</para>
</note>
</refsection>
<refsection><info><title>See Also</title></info>
<para>You can also use the <tag
class="xmlpi">dbhtml-include href</tag> processing
instruction to insert external files — both files containing
plain text and files with markup content (including HTML
content).</para>
</refsection>
<refsection><info><title>More information</title></info>
<para>For how-to documentation on inserting contents of
external code files and other text files into output, see
<link
role="tcg" xlink:href="ExternalCode.html"
>External code files</link>.</para>
<para>For guidelines on inserting contents of
HTML files into output, see <link
role="tcg" xlink:href="InsertExtHtml.html"
>Inserting external HTML code</link>.</para>
</refsection>
</refentry>