Re: [xml] xmllint makes a well-formed-check on includeed documents - and thats bad...

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 11:29:37PM +0200, Peter Körner wrote:
> then xmllint thinks this is bad (in fact two.xml is no well-formed xml 
> document - but it is only planned for beein included in one.xml. why is 
> xmllint missunderstanding that?
> Is it meant to be so?

  Yes it's expected. Included files must be well formed, and XInclude is then
defined by merging both infosets. Read the spec it is short:
    http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/

  See http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/#xml-included-items
    "Resources that contain non-well-formed XML result in a fatal error."
cristal clear I think...

Note that the use of XPointer via a fragment identifier allows to include
subset(s) of the included file. See the examples in the spec or libxml2
test suite.

Daniel

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