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1.1 Relationship to XLink

1.2 Relationship to XML External Entities

1.3 Relationship to DTDs

1.4 Relationship to XML Schemas

1.5 Relationship to Grammar-Specific Inclusions

3.1 xi:include Element

3.2 xi:fallback Element

4 Processing Model

4.1 The Include Location

4.1.1 Escaping of href attribute values

4.1.2 Using XInclude with Content Negotiation

4.2 Included Items when parse="xml"

4.2.1 Document Information Items

4.2.2 Multiple Nodes

4.2.3 Range Locations

4.2.4 Point Locations

4.2.5 Element, Comment, and Processing Instruction Information Items

4.2.6 Attribute and Namespace Declaration Information Items

4.2.7 Inclusion Loops

4.3 Included Items when parse="text"

4.4 Fallback Behavior

4.5 Creating the Result Infoset

4.5.1 Unparsed Entities

4.5.2 Notations

4.5.3 references Property Fixup

4.5.4 Namespace Fixup

4.5.5 Base URI Fixup

4.5.6 Language Fixup

4.5.7 Properties Preserved by the Infoset

5.1 Markup Conformance

5.2 Application Conformance

5.3 XML Information Set Conformance

Appendices

C.1 Basic Inclusion Example

C.2 Textual Inclusion Example

C.3 Textual Inclusion of XML Example

C.4 Fragment Inclusion Example

C.5 Range Inclusion Example

C.6 Fallback Example

5.2 Application Conformance

Application Conformance

An application conforms to XInclude if it:

supports [XML] and [XMLNS] or [XML11] and [XMLNS11], the [XMLIS], [XMLBase], the [XPCore], and the [XPElement];
stops processing when a fatal error is encountered;
observes the mandatory conditions (Must, May, etc.) set forth in this specification, and for any optional conditions (Must, May, etc. and Must, May, etc.) it chooses to observe, observes them in the way prescribed; and
performs markup conformance testing according to all the conformance constraints appearing in this specification.

Support for the [XPointer] is not mandatory for full XInclude conformance. Authors are advised that use of xpointer() and other XPointer schemes than element() might not be supported by all conformant XInclude implementations.

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