Editing XInclude (section)

== Example ==
For example, including the text file <code>license.txt</code>:

 This document is published under GNU Free Documentation License

in an [[XHTML]] document:

<syntaxhighlight lang="xml">
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
   <head>...</head>
   <body>
      ...
      <p><xi:include href="license.txt" parse="text"/></p>
   </body>
</html>
</syntaxhighlight>

gives:

<syntaxhighlight lang="xml">
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
   <head>...</head>
   <body>
      ...
      <p>This document is published under GNU Free Documentation License</p>
   </body>
</html>
</syntaxhighlight>

The mechanism is similar to [[HTML]]'s <code>&lt;object&gt;</code> tag (which is specific to the HTML [[markup language]]), but the XInclude mechanism works with any XML format, such as [[Scalable Vector Graphics|SVG]] and [[XHTML]].