Gareth Western schrieb am 02.02.2009 um 22:20:40 (+0000): > Hi, > > I have an application which uses Xerces-J (2.9.0) to parse a large xml > document which I'd like to split into several smaller files just to > make it easier to manage.
> The schema prevents me from including the entire inner file, as that > would result in nested function-set elements, so ideally i'd like to > only include the functions from each inner file. The answer is probably too late, but I just learnt about the entity business that was saved from SGML into XML, and it might come in quite handy here. You could do without the new-fangled XInclude and XPointer stuff, by using [general] external parsed entities and entity references to organize your documents into physical components. http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-physical-struct -------- C:\dev\XML\entities :: dir /b AllFunctions.xml AllFunctions2.xml function-set.dtd GroupFunctions.ent GroupFunctions.xml PrivateFunctions.ent PrivateFunctions.xml C:\dev\XML\entities :: type PrivateFunctions.ent <function code="FC1000" /> <function code="FC1001" /> C:\dev\XML\entities :: type GroupFunctions.ent <function code="FC5000" /> <function code="FC5001" /> C:\dev\XML\entities :: type PrivateFunctions.xml <?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?> <!DOCTYPE function-set [ <!ENTITY PrivateFunctions SYSTEM "PrivateFunctions.ent"> ]> <function-set> &PrivateFunctions; </function-set> C:\dev\XML\entities :: type GroupFunctions.xml <?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?> <!DOCTYPE function-set [ <!ENTITY GroupFunctions SYSTEM "GroupFunctions.ent"> ]> <function-set> &GroupFunctions; </function-set> C:\dev\XML\entities :: type AllFunctions.xml <?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?> <!DOCTYPE function-set [ <!ENTITY PrivateFunctions SYSTEM "PrivateFunctions.ent"> <!ENTITY GroupFunctions SYSTEM "GroupFunctions.ent"> ]> <function-set> &PrivateFunctions; &GroupFunctions; </function-set> -------- You could also put all the entity declarations into a DTD and reference it from your document entities. C:\dev\XML\entities :: type function-set.dtd <!ELEMENT function-set (function*)> <!ELEMENT function EMPTY> <!ATTLIST function code NMTOKEN #REQUIRED> <!ENTITY PrivateFunctions SYSTEM "PrivateFunctions.ent"> <!ENTITY GroupFunctions SYSTEM "GroupFunctions.ent"> C:\dev\XML\entities :: type AllFunctions2.xml <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE function-set SYSTEM "function-set.dtd"> <function-set> &PrivateFunctions; &GroupFunctions; </function-set> Michael Ludwig --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: j-users-unsubscr...@xerces.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: j-users-h...@xerces.apache.org
