Fwd: Re: [Exist-open] ENTITY SYSTEM - Breaking an XML document in chunks

[Wolfgang M. <me...@if...>]

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Subject: [Exist-open] ENTITY SYSTEM - Breaking an XML document in chunks
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 16:12:01 -0700
From: Gregory Steuck <gr...@ne...>
To: exi...@li...

Giampiero,

Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is: the
document you are importing is parsed into DOM on the importing side, so
the external entity refs are resolved before import. This means that all
external entities must be present and moreover, information about
external entities is lost when the document gets saved in eXist.

>>>>> "Giampiero" =3D=3D Giampiero Longobardi <glo...@eb...> writ=
es:

    Giampiero> If is it possible store in EXIST an XML document in
    Giampiero> physical chunks using the <!ENTITY name SYSTEM
    Giampiero> "filename"> declaration ?

In light of the above, I conclude, that you can't preserve this
separation in the database. The document gets "flattened" if you will.

I will be happy to be proved wrong.

Thanks
Greg

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