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On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 04:12:39PM +0200, Martin Honnen wrote:
> >Is there a _standard_ way of combining or encapsulating multiple XML
> >documents into a single XML document?
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/ is probably what you are looking for
> though it has not yet reached recommendation status.
> Implementations are listed here:
> http://www.w3.org/XML/2002/09/xinclude-implementation
Thanks for the pointer (no pun intended).
I don't think it does what I need though. What I want is to store existing
XML documents (complete with doctype/DTD subset declarations etc), within an
enclosing XML document. With XInclude, I think I would be forced to use
parse="text" to do that. And in that case, the enclosed document is not
composed of XML elements at all; I might as well store it as CDATA.
Actually, that does suggest a reasonable option:
<docset>
<document><![CDATA[<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE example1 [ <!ELEMENT one (#PCDATA)> ]>
]]>
<one>
..</one>
</document>
<document><![CDATA[<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE example2 [ <!ELEMENT two (#PCDATA)> ]>
]]>
<two>
..</two>
</document>
</docset>
Or even:
<ex:docset>
<one ex:prolog='<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE example1 [ <!ELEMENT one (#PCDATA)> ]>'>
..</one>
<two ex:prolog='<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE example2 [ <!ELEMENT two (#PCDATA)> ]>'>
..</two>
</ex:docset>
That's probably good enough for my purposes.
Regards,
Brian.
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