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> Are folks on this list planning to use XInclude when it arrives? There's a corollary question : what are folks using in the interim ? External entities are well documented as a means of achieving modular structure, but suffer some drawbacks (which are also well-known). The XSL document() function provides an alternative, but obviously its use is incompatible with forms of XML processing other than XSL. Document modularity is of particular importance in repository-type applications; one such solution, eXcelon, has "binder documents" wherein included XML documents are referred to via an application- defined element and an XPath expression. An XPath extension function is provided to optionally disable traversal when processing the binder document. Other than the above, are list members aware of other implementations (parsers, XSLT processors, or whatever) with similar functionality in any form ? One of my future projects requires a repository of XML documents which will be enriched with metadata, and permitting the construction of 'meta-documents' referencing several primary documents. I'm sure this is a fairly common situation, and any suggestions would be helpful. TIA, ======================================== Laurent Bossavit - Ingénieur R&D >>> laurent@m... <<< >> ICQ#39281367 << MultiMania http://www.multimania.fr/ ======================================== *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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