[xml] Re: xinclude question

[Enno Rehling <enno despammed com>]

Bruce Miller wrote:

> It may be more palatable to do surgery on the dom.

That sounds like the thing to do, and I'll give it a shot next week.

> Alternatively, do you really need to carry out the xincludes in the first
> place?  Ie. does your app require that they be expanded in place, or can
> you simply process the document & subdocuments separately?
>
> And of course, assuming you're not extracting some portion of the
> included document via fragments or xpointers....

I would like to use XPath expressions in the document, and while I 
haven't tested it, I was assuming that those would balk at xincludes 
that haven't been carried out. But I may be mistaken. Another thing to test.

Enno
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