Merging publication files

[Steven Clontz]

If one has multiple output targets, it's not uncommon that one needs several publication files that are only slightly different from one another -- often there's several core settings that all targets share, with slight tweaks from target-to-target.

However, I believe there's no way to "override" settings set in one publication file by xi:include-ing another.

One idea: when looking up publication file settings, we could support several nested `<publication/>` tags. That is, when looking for `/publication/common/tableofcontents`, we could also match `/publication/publication/common/tableofcontents` or `/publication/publication/publication/common/tableofcontents` or...

When multiple are present, then we prefer the least nested. That allows for a pattern like this:

<!-- tweaked settings publication file that only chnages the level of the tableofcontents -->

<publication xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">

  <common>

    <tableofcontents level="2" />

    <xi:include href="./main-publication.xml"/> <!-- has root #publication element -->
  </common>
</publication>


See also the mess happening at https://github.com/TeamBasedInquiryLearning/library/pull/1036/changes where I have duplicate so much for our project with 15+ targets. If there's an existing solution that doesn't require any changes to core pretext, I'm all ears. 😅

[Sean Fitzpatrick]

APEX (and its 14 publication files) is in this post, and I don't like it.  ;-)

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[Rob Beezer]

The sectioning of the publication files (#common, #latex, #html, etc) was meant to allow you to mix and match via xi:include without a lot of duplication. I take it that is not working satisfactorily?

You vould build a shell script to make your 14 or 15 targets. You know, like the good old days.

Rob

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