December 26, 2004

XIncludes takes advantage of existing XML technologies

LinuxElectrons™ - W3C Issues XInclude 1.0 as a W3C Recommendation

Nothing new or exciting in this post but it does bring out the the fact that XInclude was specifically designed to take advantage of existing XML standards. You might be saying "uh, yeah, thanks for making the obvious even more obvious." But what is obvious to you may not be to someone else who is new to what has become a plethora of "X"-based technologies so I figured it was worth a post. That and the XML/XSLT-related news at the moment is thin (at best) so I figured something was better than nothing :D

From the piece:

XInclude 1.0 takes advantage of the XML Information Set (Infoset), and merges XML information sets. Therefore, it can be used with any version of XML, as well as other existing XML-related specifications, such as the XML-family components XML Schema and XSLT, as well as with XML applications such as the popular Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and VoiceXML 2.0 specifications. XInclude 1.0 also takes advantage of the XPointer Framework and can be used to include sub-resources, such as fragments of XML documents, that are identified by a separate xpointer attribute.