Re: Referring another XML Document

[Eric Bohlman <ebohlman@earthlink.net>]

5/18/01 4:51:50 AM, Vikas Rawat <vikasr@aztec.soft.net> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>How can I refer to another XML document? i.e. to say, I include references 
>to another file and on reaching this kind of tag, I jump to the referenced 
>file, read the data and come back to original file.
>
>Also, I want to use a DOM parser to handle such kind of situation?

Use external entities (see any decent XML reference).  The W3C is also working on XInclude, which 
provides for inclusion at a higher level than the simple text replacement provided by external 
entities, but there aren't many implementation yet.  Any XML parser will support entity inclusion.