Cart
[Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries]
At 8:25 PM -0500 3/1/02, Simon St.Laurent wrote: >And next, does anyone know how/if Canonical XML and XInclude get along? >http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-c14n >http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/ > Simple. Canonical XML knows nothing about XInclude. (Actually, it's based on XPath 1.0, which also knows nothing about XInclude.) When a canonicalizer is presented with a document in which some elements look like <xinclude:include href="someURL"/> it treats these elements exactly like it treats any other element. It associates no special semantics with them. It most definitely does *not* resolve XIncludes. You may, perhaps, choose to resolve the XIncludes in document A, thus producing a new document B. You may then canonicalize document B. However, what you get is *not* the canonical form of document A. It is the canonical form of the new document B. (These would only be equal in the trivially uninteresting case where document A does not contain any XInclude elements.) -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@m... | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (Hungry Minds, 2001) | | http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/bible2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764547607/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
|
