On Nov 1, 12:25 pm, Gerald Sheehan
<GeraldShee...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> An alternative to xlink and using external entities is XInclude and XPointer.
> You can find support for this in the latest release of XMLSpy 2008. More
> details here:http://www.altova.com/features_xinclude.html
>
> There's an MSDN article on this here:http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa302291.aspx
>
> --
> Best Regards,
>
> ... Jerry Sheehan
> ... Altova, Inc.
>
>
>
> "Peter Flynn" wrote:
> > On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:19:07 -0700, smadden wrote:
>
> > > I am currently representing a large amount of metadata in XML. As this
> > > data grows, we find that it is just too damn big (500MB). We are
> > > thinking of taking redundant frequency metadata out of the picture, and
> > > packing it into a flat file, and then describing the file in the XML.
> > > Can I use XLink to point to this outside flat file, whether it be in a
> > > different directory or on the web?  Or is there a better approach?  Any
> > > insight would be greatly appreciated.
>
> > A good place to ask would be the TEI-L mailing list (see links onwww.tei-
> > c.org) where there are people accustomed to dealing with humungous
> > amounts of metadata in XML.
>
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Thank you for your information. However, I am talking about pointing
to an external file that is not an XML file, just to provide the
location. I currently develop the schemas, which I have in namespaces,
and use xs:import to inherit.