XInclude
XInclude is a generic mechanism for merging XML documents, by writing inclusion tags in the "main" document to automatically include other documents or parts thereof.[1] The resulting document becomes a single composite XML Information Set. The XInclude mechanism can be used to incorporate content from either XML files or non-XML text files.
Example
For example, including the text file license.txt:
This document is published under GNU Free Documentation License
in an XHTML document:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
<head>...</head>
<body>
...
<p><xi:include href="license.txt" parse="text"/></p>
</body>
</html>
gives:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
<head>...</head>
<body>
...
<p>This document is published under GNU Free Documentation License</p>
</body>
</html>
The mechanism is similar to HTML's <object> tag (which is specific to the HTML markup language), but the XInclude mechanism works with any XML format, such as SVG and XHTML.
Browser Support
- Not natively.
- Partially using some extra Javascript code[2]
See also
References
- ^ J. Marsh, D. Orchard, Daniel Veillard. "XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0 (Second Edition), Appendix C: Examples (non-normative)". World Wide Web Consortium. Retrieved 2007-06-28.
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External links
- XInclude Standard
- XInclude with XSLT
- Using XInclude in Xerces
- Using XInclude article by Elliotte Rusty Harold