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Re: XInclude [was: XLink transformations]

  • From: Ken MacLeod <ken@b...>
  • To: xml-dev@x...
  • Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 12:15:57 -0500

xinclude.xslt
David Orchard <orchard@p...> writes:

> There is no elegent way to remove some particular PIs from an
> included document and keep the future of XInclude open.  XInclude
> must be non-lossy.
> 
> XInclude as it stands is simply the first step towards a goal.
> Eventually, I would like to realize some of transclusion in
> XInclude/XSLT/Query combinations.  With regard to XSLT, a next
> logical step for XInclude/XPath is to add 2 things:

> 1) the ability to specify what the state of the included document
> should be, ie before schema validation, default, after transform,
> after query, etc.  This might require an xpointer addition to
> specify state in URIs

> 2) the ability of the XInclude author to specify when the inclusion
> itself should take place, ie before schema validation, defult, after
> transform, after query, etc.
> 
> Then we could actually meet the use case of an author creating a
> single element that specified including a document that has been
> styled into an source document after the source document's styling
> is complete, thus preserving included documents style aka copyright
> notice.

How does this differ from XLink's behaviors?

I recently needed a similar "include" type functionality (pre- or
post-transform) and asked on xsl-list, and then came to the conclusion
that XLink's behaviors were the likely solution, but just not
available yet (so, back to external merges).

  -- Ken

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