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- From: "Laurent Bossavit" <laurent@mmania.com>
- To: xml-dev@xml.org
- Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 10:04:32 +0200
> 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,
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Laurent Bossavit - Ingénieur R&D
>>> laurent@mmania.com <<<
>> ICQ#39281367 <<
MultiMania http://www.multimania.fr/
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