XML documents merger ahead

By Paul Festa
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With the publication of a new specification, the Web's leading standards organization promised XML authors a simpler way to merge documents.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) on Monday recommended XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0, a specification designed to replace awkward work-arounds for combining XML documents.

"Inclusion is the ability to reuse content, which lets me take something like a copyright statement and include it on all my company's XML documents," said Philippe Le Hegaret, the W3C's architecture domain leader. "Without an inclusion mechanism, you have to copy and paste, and this lets you just reference it."

XML authors have other, more cumbersome ways of merging documents without the new specification. The most widely used relies on the document type definition (DTD), a server-based set of instructions that helps computers interpret XML documents and determine how their elements interact.

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