maxwell@l... wrote:
>> External entities are uncommon in recent documents.
> I suppose there's a reason for that.

They're supported only by DTDs, not schemas. And, as you reminded me, 
they aren't namespace-aware, which is a Bad Thing.

 > What should I be using instead,

Sigh. The closest equivalent is XInclude 
(http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xinclude-20041220/), but widespread 
support for that at the parser level has been a slow in arriving because 
there hasn't been a lot of demand for it..

It's not uncommon for folks to kluge up an implementation of XInclude by 
using an XSLT stylesheet that recognizes the XInclude directives and 
generates a new document that replaces them with the information they 
reference. (Stylesheets which provide this function can be found on the 
web, with a bit of searching.) Of course that requires that you 
explicitly run the document through an XSLT processor to execute that 
stylesheet, in addition to any other processing (including additional 
stylesheets) you want to apply to it.


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