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RE: XInclude Support

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• Subject: RE: XInclude Support
• From: "Chris Goolsby" <Chris.Goolsby@s...>
• Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 11:07:31 -0400
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• Thread-topic: XInclude Support

FYI, Arbortext just announced they were adding Xinclude support to their 5.0 release at the end of the year.

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-----Original Message-----
From: David Megginson [mailto:david@m...]
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 1:29 PM
To: xml-dev@l...
Subject: Re:  XInclude Support


Joe English writes:

 > I've developed a number of vocabularies that could have used
 > XInclude, but ended up using a simpler ad-hoc solution instead.
 > The main reasons I didn't use XInclude are: XPointer was unnecessary
 > for my needs (relative URIs were sufficient, I only needed whole-document
 > transclusion); XPointer was unimplementable (at least by me);
 > and in a number of cases leaving XInclude out meant I could
 > leave out XML namespaces as well (since nothing else in the
 > vocabulary called for them).

I chaired a session at XML Europe where Michael Grimley presented a
system from the U.S. Navy that uses XInclude on the client
(implemented in XSLT) for compound documents.


All the best,


David

-- 
David Megginson, david@m..., http://www.megginson.com/

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