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On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Warren Hedley wrote: > I'm trying to write a Java application where as many classes as > possible only use the DOM API, and only a few use specific > parsers. Anyway, say I read in something like > > <rootElement> > <link-childElement href="childElement.xml"> > </rootElement> > > and I then go and read "childElement.xml" and want to replace > the <link-childElement> in the original DOM with the > <childElement> I found in that file. A fairly common problem > I'm sure. Such a common problem that the solution to it is built into the definition of XML itself (and XML inherited it from SGML). Just declare the child document as an entity in your internal DTD subset (<!ENTITY childElement SYSTEM "childElement.xml">) and then reference it as %childElement; instead of creating a special element type to represent inclusion. That way the parser will transparently perform the inclusion rather than requiring the application logic to do it. I've noticed in recent days a tendency for people to propose using XLink or application-specific linking mechanisms to accomplish tasks that could just as well be handled by the entity mechanism. Let's not forget our roots. xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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