hi,

McSwell a écrit :
> I have an XML file that looks something like this:
> ------------------------
> <?xml ...?>
> <!DOCTYPE ...>
> <src:fragment id="foo" ...>
> <Ph:Item> some stuff  </Ph:Item>
> <Ph:Item> some more stuff </Ph:Item>
> ...
> <Ph:Item> still more stuff </Ph:Item>
> </src:fragment>
> ----------------------
> 
> I want to xinclude all the children of the root element into another
> XML file.  I've been trying things like
>    <xi:include href="firstFileName" xpointer="foo/1"/>

Provided that your XInclude engine support them, you can use the 
xpointer() scheme from the XPointer framework ; usually, tools that 
support them only support XPath, or a subset of XPath

If I don't make mistakes, try this :
<xi:include href="firstFileName" xpointer="xpointer(/foo/node())"/>
...but I don't remember if the spec doesn't impose limitations such as 
"there must be a single node" :(

You can try RefleX for performing your XInclusions where XPath is rather 
well supported :
http://reflex.gforge.inria.fr/
Here is a basic example with XInclude :
http://reflex.gforge.inria.fr/tutorial-basics.html#dtdValidation

And the result of the test suite, for DOM and SAX (both are supporting 
XPath)
http://reflex.gforge.inria.fr/tests-xinclude.html

> However, if(!) I'm understanding correctly, this would only xinclude
> the *first* child of the element named 'foo'.  Instead, I want to
> xinclude *all* the children.  I would have thought that this
>    <xi:include href="firstFileName" xpointer="foo/*"/>
> would work, but it generates an error:
>    XPointer evaluation failed: #foo/*
> All the variants of this that I've tried also fail.
> 
> How do I xinclude all children of the specified element?
> 
>    Mike Maxwell
>    CASL/ U MD


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