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[XWeb-Users] XML files including files including files.

[Jesper V. <jv...@ph...>]

Hi,

Thanks to Felix Schwarz, I can now import other XML-files in my XML, and let
XWeb process the documnet.
(See last thread). This works fine, and it will do what I need to be done.

However, blod as I am, I ran into difficulties when I started to import XML
files in more than one level.
What I want is to import XML files into XLM files, where the imported files
themself import other XML files.
Is this possible? XWeb states, what the XML is not 'well formed'.

Thanks in advance.

Jesper


Felix wrote:
>From: Felix Schwarz <Felix@sc...>
>Re: Cannot find file in ENTITY
>2002-04-24 08:08
>Hi Jesper,

> Jesper wrote:
> > I include an XML file like this:
> >
> >
> ]>> (...)
> > Error on line 0 of XML document: File "homemain.xml" not found.
>
> I saw a similar problem with referencing dtds. "Solution" was to
> specify the absolute URI eg. "file:///c:/path/file.dtd".
>
> HTH
>
> --
> Felix

Re: [XWeb-Users] XML files including files including files.

[Peter B. <pe...@pe...>]

Jesper Voetmann wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Thanks to Felix Schwarz, I can now import other XML-files in my XML, and let
>XWeb process the documnet.
>(See last thread). This works fine, and it will do what I need to be done.
>
>However, blod as I am, I ran into difficulties when I started to import XML
>files in more than one level.
>What I want is to import XML files into XLM files, where the imported files
>themself import other XML files.
>Is this possible? XWeb states, what the XML is not 'well formed'.
>
As far as I know XML does not allow nesting system entities. You could 
try to use the import features of XSLT instead: it is possible to open 
additional files while processing XSLT code. Although this is not 
official part of the XSLT 1.0 spec most XSLT processors (including the 
version of Saxon in the distribution) support the document(..) function 
which gets a URL and returns the root element of the document given by 
this URL.

HTH,
  Peter

Re: [XWeb-Users] XML files including files including files.

[Mikael S. <mik...@ho...>]

At 13:38 2002-05-01 +0200, Peter Becker wrote:
>As far as I know XML does not allow nesting system entities.

That's true, since an included entity cannot define further entity references.

>You could try to use the import features of XSLT instead: it is possible 
>to open additional files while processing XSLT code. Although this is not 
>official part of the XSLT 1.0 spec
>  most XSLT processors (including the version of Saxon in the 
> distribution) support the document(..) function which gets a URL and 
> returns the root element of the document given by this URL.

The document() function is definitly part of XSLT 1.0. Do you refer to any 
special treatment of the document() function?

Re: [XWeb-Users] XML files including files including files.

[Peter B. <pe...@pe...>]

Mikael St=E5ldal wrote:

[...]

>> You could try to use the import features of XSLT instead: it is=20
>> possible to open additional files while processing XSLT code.=20
>> Although this is not official part of the XSLT 1.0 spec
>>  most XSLT processors (including the version of Saxon in the=20
>> distribution) support the document(..) function which gets a URL and=20
>> returns the root element of the document given by this URL.
>
>
> The document() function is definitly part of XSLT 1.0. Do you refer to=20
> any special treatment of the document() function?

No, probably I just mess things up ;-) I thought I remember having read=20
something like this about document() in Michael Kay's book, but probably=20
it was about something different.

   Peter