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Re: canonicalization

• To: Marcus Carr <mcarr@a...>
• Subject: Re: canonicalization
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 22:31:33 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
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At 10:24 AM +1100 3/5/02, Marcus Carr wrote:


>Doing this with entities, I'd generate a document comprised of entity
>references, and create the subdocuments with DOCTYPEs. I'd validate the
>subdocuments independantly, creating the files that matched my entity
>references. I understand that with XInclude I could use the subdocuments
>directly (after validation) rather than first generating an output file
>(without DOCTYPE) from each subdocument - is that the only gain in this
>scenario?

No, there are a few others. Specifically,

1. XInclude allows (but does not require) fallbacks if a resource is 
missing. Entities don't.

2. XInclude can use XPointers to select only part of a remote 
document. Entities can't.

3. XInclude can include unparsed text, useful for examples in XML 
books and such. Entities can only refer to XML.
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