XInclude

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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.[1] 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.[2]

Example

For example, including the text file license.txt: 

This document is published under GNU Free Documentation License

in an XHTML document: 

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
   <head>...</head>
   <body>
      ...
      <p><xi:include href="license.txt" parse="text"/></p>
   </body>
</html>

gives: 

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
   <head>...</head>
   <body>
      ...
      <p>This document is published under GNU Free Documentation License</p>
   </body>
</html>

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

  1. ↑ "XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0 (Second Edition), Appendix C: Examples (non-normative)". World Wide Web Consortium. http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/#examples. 
  2. ↑ "XInclude". Mozilla Developer Network. https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XInclude. 



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