"Borden, Jonathan" wrote:
> 
> Let me add to this,
> 
> what would be even better would be the ability to inject this external
> entity into the *source* XML tree for processing. 

How would this be better?

> This would allow the
> important ability to merge several XML documents together into an output
> document.

You can do this without modifying the source tree. All you need is:

<process-xml-document-node href="...">

Processing a node in another XML document is conceptually no different
than processing one in the current document. You don't need to merge the
trees to have access to both.

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