is there an "xml-include"
Robert A. (Bob) Morris
ram at CS.UMB.EDU
Tue Nov 20 11:02:34 CET 2001
Ah, you are correct. I read his request too quickly.
Both Apache Cocoon and Microsoft .NET claim to support XInclude but I
am not sure if there are any pure client-side implementations. Also, it is
unclear at (another too quick) glance what the validation issues may
be with either of these.
Leigh Dodds writes:
> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 12:29:42 -0000
> From: Leigh Dodds <ldodds at INGENTA.COM>
> To: TDWG-SDD at usobi.org
> Subject: Re: is there an "xml-include"
>
> This is a means to separate out a schema into multiple files,
> if I understand Gregor correctly he's asking for a way to test for
> id/keyref uniqueness across multiple files?
>
> If so, then you can include chunks of XML in other documents
> using the dtd entity mechanism -- which is what I believe he
> has already tried. I don't believe there's actually an equivalent
> for XML Schema: you still need a DTD.
>
> At a higher level there is XInclude which allows for including
> content from one document into another. Not sure on
> current support for this however.
>
> (Assuming I'm on the right track) You may want to consider
> using an additional validation mechanism here, such as XLinkIt [1]
> which can make assertions (e.g. id uniqueness) across multiple
> documents.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> [1]. http://www.xlinkit.com/main.html
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: TDWG - Structure of Descriptive Data [mailto:TDWG-SDD at usobi.org]On
> > Behalf Of Robert A. (Bob) Morris
> > Sent: 20 November 2001 11:41
> > To: TDWG-SDD at usobi.org
> > Subject: XML: is there an "xml-include"
> >
> >
> > Yes. See
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-0/#SchemaInMultDocs
> >
> >
> > Gregor Hagedorn writes:
> > > Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 11:17:27 +0100
> > > From: Gregor Hagedorn <G.Hagedorn at bba.de>
> > > To: TDWG-SDD at usobi.org
> > > Subject: XML: is there an "xml-include"
> > >
> > > If character are defined with an id (numeric or character) in one
> > > file, and the item descriptions use these ids through idref or
> > > through xml-schema keyref means:
> > >
> > > How can a validating parser validate the schema, including keyrefs,
> > > without having to include the entire character definition in each of
> > > 1000s of taxon description xml files? Can the ids for idref/keyref be
> > > declared to be in a separate file?
> > >
> > > I could not find a standard xml-include command. I know there is one
> > > defined for dtds, but that is all I could find.
> > >
> > > Can the xml experts help?
> > >
> > > Gregor
> > >
> > > PS I will post minutes of the TDWG meeting within the next days
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > > Gregor Hagedorn (G.Hagedorn at bba.de)
> > > Institute for Plant Virology, Microbiology, and Biosafety
> > > Federal Research Center for Agriculture and Forestry (BBA)
> > > Koenigin-Luise-Str. 19 Tel: +49-30-8304-2220
> > > 14195 Berlin, Germany Fax: +49-30-8304-2203
> > >
> > > Often wrong but never in doubt!
> > >
>
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