Re: [xml] XML_XINCLUDE_START/END nodes

[Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>]

On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 12:05, Rob Richards wrote:
> What is the purpose of these nodes other than to marking the beginning
> and end of xincluded documents?
>  
> I have a dom implementation which after passing the document through
> an xinclude process, contains these nodes. Looking through the dom and
> xinclude specs, I couldnt find any reference to these nodes, so can
> these just be removed from the tree after the xinclude processing or
> do they provide some additional functionality which would need to be
> handled in the dom implementation?

After you have created your tree and done any validation you require,
you can ignore those nodes.

It would be inconvenient to automatically drop them from any created
tree, since I have more than once come across situations that need to
know when they are leaving the main document and entering some XIncluded
content.

Cheers,
Malcolm