Hi Michael, Michael Ludwig <mil...@gmx.de> wrote on 03/28/2009 12:39:14 PM:
> 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. Depends on your scenario. I recall Gareth needed more than what Xerces' current XInclude implementation currently supports. General entities provide even less than that. > 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 Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: mrgla...@ca.ibm.com E-mail: mrgla...@apache.org
