Editing XInclude

'''XInclude''' is a generic mechanism for merging [[XML]] documents, by writing inclusion tags in the "main" document to automatically include other documents or parts thereof.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/#examples
|title=XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0 (Second Edition), Appendix C: Examples (non-normative)
|author1=J. Marsh |author2=D. Orchard |author3=Daniel Veillard |publisher=[[World Wide Web Consortium]]
|access-date=2007-06-28
}}</ref> The resulting document becomes a single composite [[XML Information Set]]. The XInclude mechanism can be used to incorporate content from either XML files or non-XML text files.

XInclude is not natively supported in Web browsers, but may be partially achieved by using some extra [[JavaScript]] code.<ref>
{{cite web
 |url=https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XInclude
 |title=XInclude
 |author1=((Brettz9))
 |author2=rolfedh|author3=klez|author4=teoli
 |display-authors=1
 |publisher=[[Mozilla Developer Network]]
}}</ref>

== 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]].

== See also ==
* [[XPath]]

== References ==
<references/>

== External links ==
* [http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/ XInclude Standard]
* [http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2007/03/28/xinclude-processing-in-xslt-with-xipr.html XInclude with XSLT]
* [http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/faq-xinclude.html Using XInclude in Xerces]
* [https://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/07/31/xinclude.html Using XInclude] article by Elliotte Rusty Harold

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