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Re: Using XInclude

• To: Uche Ogbuji <Uche.Ogbuji@f...>
• Subject: Re: Using XInclude
• From: Alan Gutierrez <alan-xml-dev@e...>
• Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 17:52:55 -0400
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* Uche Ogbuji <Uche.Ogbuji@f...> [2005-04-29 15:40]:
> On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 13:21 -0400, Alan Gutierrez wrote:
> >     I've implemented a simple Include engine for my pipeline
> >     framework that will optionally take an XPath query as a URI
> >     fragment, it seems to do everything I want.
> > 
> >     Wondering who uses XInclude and where?
> 
> I use XInclude *heavily* as a means to write articles about XML.  I
> usually write listings as external files, for easy testing, and then I
> use <xi:include parse="text"... to bring it seamlessy into the article
> for sending to the editor.  All escaping and encoding issues are pretty
> much taken care of.  Very handy.
> 
> I use the XInclude implementation in 4Suite, part of which I wrote.
> 
> > Has anyone implemented
> >     the full xpointer scheme?
> 
> We sure the heck haven't.  Madness...
> 
> > I read over XInclude and didn't see
> >     why I needed the "point" concept, but I didn't read it too hard.
> 
> points and ranges are really for use in Web browsers and other such
> interactive UIs.  They are useless for offline-type use.  I and others
> complained early on that they should be removed from the XPointer core
> and moved to a user agent module of some sort.  Oh well.

    Thank you. This is the explaination I was looking for.
    
    It does seem like the xpointer scheme was doing text selections,
    and I couldn't figure out how that could be used practically,
    especially from my XSLT-centric point of view. I can see how it
    could be used to reference text selected in a UI, but that
    strikes me as a very fragile pointer. 

    Did you implement anything beyond the a xpath statement of the
    xpointer scheme? I figure that the following would be plenty
    good enough:
    
    - xmlns
    - element
    - xpointer(<xpath statement>)

    Since the above could be implemented without having to hack into
    an XPath implementation.

    Cheers.

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