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At 6:26 AM -0500 2/5/02, John Cowan wrote:
>> Why the extra layer that breaks validation?
>
>Breaks *DTD* validation. More reasonable kinds of validation can be
>applied in a pipeline either before XInclude processing or after
>it or both.
>
It doesn't even have to be inconsistent with DTD validation. I
routinely use XInclude to put together a several hundred page book
<http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/xmljava/> and then reparse the
result with a DTD to validate it. It's a two-step process instead of
a one-step process but it works.
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