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Re: [xsl] Newted XML Documents

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Jack Cane wrote:

Suppose I am writing a book of many chapters each of which may have sections
and subsections. To keep things under control I propose to use included
files. Thus, the main file will have "book" as the root element and will
include chapter files.

Each chapter file will have "Chapter" as its root element, and will have one
or more section files included in it.

Section files will have subsections, etc.

So, my vision is of a nested set of included files.

Will XML support this?

Yes, This is how I did it. I have a file called docroot.dtd like this

<!ELEMENT docroot (#PCDATA)>
<!ENTITY doc1 SYSTEM "foo.xml">
<!ENTITY doc2 SYSTEM "bar.xml">

I have an xml file called docroot.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE docroot SYSTEM "docroot.dtd">
<docroot>
&doc1;
&doc2;
</docroot>

The & is the include statement that refers to the entities defined in the DTD. I think there may be a way to do this with XSD stylesheets as well. I think that is the preferred way nowadays as dtds are considered antiquated. Still this method does work.


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