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At 8:25 PM -0500 3/1/02, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
>And next, does anyone know how/if Canonical XML and XInclude get along?
>http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-c14n
>http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/
>
Simple. Canonical XML knows nothing about XInclude. (Actually, it's
based on XPath 1.0, which also knows nothing about XInclude.) When a
canonicalizer is presented with a document in which some elements
look like <xinclude:include href="someURL"/> it treats these elements
exactly like it treats any other element. It associates no special
semantics with them. It most definitely does *not* resolve XIncludes.
You may, perhaps, choose to resolve the XIncludes in document A, thus
producing a new document B. You may then canonicalize document B.
However, what you get is *not* the canonical form of document A. It
is the canonical form of the new document B. (These would only be
equal in the trivially uninteresting case where document A does not
contain any XInclude elements.)
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