Re: XInclude 1.1 Requirements

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

David Cramer <david@thingbag.net> writes:
> While we're cracking things open, would it be possible to extend the
> element scheme [1] so you could do:
>
> <xi:include href="foo.xml" xpointer="element(someId/*)"/>
>
> Short of the full xpath support that was in the xpointer() scheme,
> that would provide a lot of benefit for a small change.

Many processors support the xpath() scheme which lets you do this, I
believe.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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