Re: is there an "xml-include"

I think this comes closest. Can you point me to information on XInclude? As you say, it seems unclear whether a validating parser, say msxml 4.0 would be able to check such id/idrefs.

http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude XInclude in Java: http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/XInclude/ Cheers, L.