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Re: Re: XInclude
- From: Salvatore Mangano <smangano at ureach dot com>
- To: "Joerg Heinicke" <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 12:29:29 -0400
- Subject: Re: Re: [xsl] XInclude
- Reply-to: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
Yes, of course one can implement Xinclude using the facilities
in XSLT. That is all well and good. However, if the W3C is
going to have a standard called xinclude you would expect tools
that process xml to at least provide the option of recognizing
it. In other words, I should be able to author a stylesheet
that transforms a document with out necessarily worrying if the
author of the document created a monolithic document or created
a document that xincludes sub-documents.
Now I know how to create a stylesheet that will work in both
cases. This is not my question or problem. My question is why
have a standard if something as ubiquitous as XSLT does not
recognize it for free?
---- On Thu, 30 May 2002, Joerg Heinicke
(joerg.heinicke@gmx.de) wrote:
> Sal Mangano wrote:
> > Are xslt processors required to use XML parsers that
recognize and
> > implement xinclude (http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude)? If
not, will they
> > when it becomes an official recommendation of the W3C? Do
any processors
> > recognize it already?
> >
> > By "recognize" I, of course, mean "implement" such that
the referenced
> > document is merged into the including document.
>
> Again the question: Why should an XSLT-processor should
implement XInclude?
> XPath has a document()-function to work with different files.
For XInclude
> you need of course an XInclude-transformer. It's more for XML-
aggregation
> than transformation. But you can reach the same via document
() I think.
>
> Joerg
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