Include Files in XML?

[Michael (47)]

I've searched and searched and can't seem to find an answer.

With .shtml you would put <!--#include virtual="/top.shtml">

With .php you would put <?php require 'top.php'?>

But what would I use for XML pages? Is there a similar command and if so what is it?

 

[Evan Webb]

http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/

I believe is what you're looking for. Of course, whatever parser you're working with might not support this... Good luck

-Evan

I've searched and searched and can't seem to find an answer.

With .shtml you would put <!--#include virtual="/top.shtml">

With .php you would put <?php require 'top.php'?>

But what would I use for XML pages? Is there a similar command and if so

what is it?

 

[Finnbarr P. Murphy]

I've searched and searched and can't seem to find an answer.

With .shtml you would put <!--#include virtual="/top.shtml">

With .php you would put <?php require 'top.php'?>

But what would I use for XML pages? Is there a similar command and if so what is it?

One way is to use general entities. See the following article for an example:

www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tipgentity.html

- Finnbarr

 

[Michael (47)]

www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tipgentity.html

I tried what it said in there and put the following into a .xml file

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE letter [
<!ENTITY feed SYSTEM "/rss.xml">
]>

&feed;

This is the result I get.

The XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.

Invalid at the top level of the document. Error processing resource 'http://www.mydomain.com/rss.xml'. Line 6, Position 2

&feed

Any ideas as to what I did incorrectly?

 

[David Carlisle]

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE letter [
<!ENTITY feed SYSTEM "/rss.xml">
]>

&feed;

Any ideas as to what I did incorrectly?

you can't put the entire document into the entity: you have to have at least the top level element in your main file

Make that

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE letter [
<!ENTITY feed SYSTEM "/rss.xml">
]>
<letter>
&feed;
</letter>

and (probably) don't have <letter>i n your rss.xml file.

David

 

[Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz]

Any ideas as to what I did incorrectly?

Your res.xml file is not in the expected directory. Try specifying a relative path or a full path.

 

[Michael (47)]

<!DOCTYPE letter [
<!ENTITY feed SYSTEM "/rss.xml">
]>
<letter>
&feed;
</letter>

Ok that now seems to work fine thanks

However, now another problem persist. What my goal was is to take a very long url and turn it into rss.xml (its a RSS feed).

If I open up the rss.xml file in a browser with that code, it shows up fine, shows the rss file, and all is dandy.

However it won't validate in the rss validator, the validator shows the following:

<?xml version="1.0"?><!DOCTYPE letter [
<!ENTITY feed SYSTEM "/reallybiglongfile.xml">
]>
<letter>
&feed;
</letter>

As oppose to the actual xml file that shows in the browser with the RSS feed that I want it to display. Any ideas how to solve the problem?

 

[nomad]

Try Using
<include xlink:href="fileName.fileType">

This is a problem I had encountered in the passed and using the xlin worked for me

-
Noma