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Re: including another xml file (without a DTD)

• From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>
• To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
• Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:15:27 -0500

At 2010-11-29 07:06 -0800, trubliphone wrote:
>\I have a big XML file I would like to split up into smaller XML 
>files.  I know that this can be done using an entity inside a DTD:
>
>
><!DOCTYPE novel SYSTEM "foo.dtd" [
><!ENTITY bar SYSTEM "bar.xml">
>]>
>
>But, I am using Schemas.  Is there still a way for me to do this?

What you are citing is the ability to define the entity structure of 
an XML document.  This doesn't prevent you from using W3C Schema to 
test for constraint violations of the elements and attributes.

You are still allowed to say:

  <!DOCTYPE novel
  [
  <!ENTITY bar SYSTEM "bar.xml">
  ]>
  <novel>...&bar;...</novel>

... and then validate its content with a W3C Schema processor.

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . . . . . Ken



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