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Re: [xmldev] Including XMLs in XML

• To: varun@v...
• Subject: Re: [xmldev] Including XMLs in XML
• From: Anthony Williams <anthony.williams@h...>
• Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 11:55:24 +0100
• Cc: "xml-dev@l..." <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <1096021527.2705.9.camel@work-va> (Varun Mehta's message of"Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:55:27 +0530")
• References: <1096021527.2705.9.camel@work-va>
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Please don't SHOUT.

Varun Mehta <varun@v...> writes:

> Is there anyways where I can include one XML file in another
>
> eg:
>
> XML 1
> ===========
>
> <father>
> 	<child1>HERE INCLUDE FILE 1</child1>
> 	<child2>HERE INCLUDE FILE 2</child2>
> 	<child3>HERE INCLUDE FILE 3</child3>
> 	<child4>HERE INCLUDE FILE 4</child4>
> </father>
>
>
> XML 2
> ===========
>
> <child>
> 	<data1></data1>
> 	<data2></data2>
> </child>
>
> WITHOUT USING PARSERS OF ANY KIND, 

I don't understand what you're getting at here --- what do you read the XML
with, if not a parser?

> CAN I LINK THE TWO FILES SUCH THAT
> THE FINAL XML LOOKS THIS WAY.
> 	
> FINAL XML
> ============
>
> <father>
> 	<child1>
> <!-- THE FILE TWO GET's INCLUDED OVER HERE -->
> 		<child>
> 			<data1></data1>
> 			<data2></data2>
> 		</child>
> 	</child1>
> </father>

You can declare an external entity in the DTD:

<!ENTITY child1Data SYSTEM "path/to/child1.xml">

and then use it in the XML:

<father><child1>&child1;</child1></father>

But that requires a parser to expand the entity.

Anthony
-- 
Anthony Williams
Senior Software Engineer, Beran Instruments Ltd.

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