[oXygen-user] XInclude

[Sorin Ristache]

Hello,

XInclude is just an inclusion mechanism intended to facilitate 
modularity of XML documents. With the XInclude support switched on 
oXygen's internal parser resolves the XInclude references in parsed XML 
documents. This occurs in well-formedness/validity checks as you already 
noticed, in XSL transformations, when generating a schema (Relax NG, 
DTD, W3C XML Schema) from a set of XML documents, etc.

Editing in oXygen works at file level, not at document level. This is 
also true for the save operation. So you cannot see a view of the entire 
document with the XInclude references resolved. If you want to save the 
document as a single file after resolving the references just apply the 
XSLT identity transform on the main module of the document.

The oXygen User Manual presents an example of splitting a document in 
multiple fragments using XInclude. For specific details I think the W3C 
recommendation is the place to go.


Regards,
Sorin


Mark Seaborne wrote:
> Hi I am just starting to experiment with Oxygen's XInclude support. I  
> now have a document that uses XInclude and Oxygen has XInclude  switched 
> on.
> 
> Apart from checking well-formedness/validity across the XML instances  
> what other functionality does Oxygen give me? For example can I view  
> the document with the XInclude statements resolved, or can I choose  to 
> save the document either before or after XInclude processing?
> 
> The help documentation is not very forthcoming on the subject (unless  I 
> am missing something obvious, which I don't rule out).
> 
> All the best
> 
> Mark