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Re: XInclude vs SAX vs validation

• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• To: David Brownell <david-b@p...>
• Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 15:06:15 -0400

David Brownell wrote:

> As I'm saying the purpose of XInclude should be.  It's certainly
> suggested by the name's analogy to #include.

All the world's not C.  There have been for many years more
selective kinds of includes in programming languages.  Consider
Python's "from F import A, B, C ..."

> It's a pretty huge leap to say that, for example, C/C++ doesn't have syntax
> or modularity below the file level.

Right.  What it doesn't have is source-code addressibility below
the file level.  (Grove weenies, this is your opportunity to
define a property set for C/C++ programs.)

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