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Evan Lenz wrote: > > Eric van der Vlist wrote: > > 2) Inclusions (external parsed entities), > > This is the goal of XInclude that goes beyond DTDs by allowing to > > include subsets of documents. > > A shortcoming of XInclude, when compared to entities, is that XInclude only > allows a merging of infosets, and fragments don't have infosets. This means > that XInclude is not currently up to the task of replacing entities by a > long shot. > > "Well-formed XML entities that do not have defined infosets (e.g. an > external entity file with multiple top-level elements) are outside the scope > of this specification, either for use as a source infoset or the result > infoset."[1] XPointer has been extended to support external entities [1], though: "Like [XSLT], XPointer allows the root node to have multiple child elements, to allow XPointers to address into arbitrary external parsed entities as well as well-formed documents." [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr#b2d250b5b9 I wonder what you can do with a set of nodes identified by a XPointer if it has no infoset! Eric > Also, the spec claims that XInclude and entities are "complementary" > technologies.[2] > > Evan Lenz > XYZFind Corp. > > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/#processing > [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/#rel-extent > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org, an initiative of OASIS > <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To unsubscribe from this elist send a message with the single word > "unsubscribe" in the body to: xml-dev-request@l... -- Pour y voir plus clair dans la nebuleuse XML... http://dyomedea.com/formation/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric van der Vlist http://xmlfr.org http://dyomedea.com http://xsltunit.org http://4xt.org http://examplotron.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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