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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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.
XInclude is not natively supported in Web browsers, but may be partially achieved by using some extra JavaScript code.<ref> Template:Cite web</ref>
Example
For example, including the text file license.txt:
This document is published under GNU Free Documentation License
in an XHTML document:
<syntaxhighlight lang="xml"> <?xml version="1.0"?> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <head>...</head> <body> ...
<xi:include href="license.txt" parse="text"/>
</body>
</html> </syntaxhighlight>
gives:
<syntaxhighlight lang="xml"> <?xml version="1.0"?> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <head>...</head> <body> ...
This document is published under GNU Free Documentation License
</body>
</html> </syntaxhighlight>
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.
See also
References
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External links
- XInclude Standard
- XInclude with XSLT
- Using XInclude in Xerces
- Using XInclude article by Elliotte Rusty Harold