I have some web pages at the moment that are dynamic rather than plain (X)HTML solely to make use of includes. I’d like to replace that with a client side solution as it seems silly to use a dynamic server side technology for one feature. I guess to be useful on the web today, a decent set of browsers that would need XInclude support would be: IE Mozilla

KHTML Do any of these currently offer XInclude support? Well, if not, I’m going to seriously look at using good old fashioned entity replacement with XHTML as a solution.

I am trying to use the new XInclude feature of JAXP 1.3 (unbundled) but I am restricted to J2EE 1.3.1 . I have already placed the dom.jar, sax.jar xalan.jar and xercesImple.jar in the jre/lib/ext/ directory (using the endorsed directory is for JDK 1.4 . But the sample XInlcude demo included will not compile. What info I could find said not to add the jaxp-api.jar (Have tried it with and with out still doesnt work The main method of the of the class is below with the line causing the problem marked Any help/pointers would be greatly appreciated. Am using Eclipse 3.0 as an editor and am sure there is no problem there

public static void main(String argv[]) {
if (argv.length < 2) { printUsage(); System.exit(1); } try {
--> DocumentBuilderFactory dbf =
DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); // make parser xinclude aware
by setting the XIncludeAware to true. dbf.setXIncludeAware(true);
dbf.setNamespaceAware(true); // parse the xml file. DocumentBuilder
parser = dbf.newDocumentBuilder(); parser.setErrorHandler(new
ErrorHandlerImpl()); Document doc = parser.parse(argv[0]); // write
//the output to specified file. DOMImplementation impl
=doc.getImplementation(); DOMImplementationLS implLS
=(DOMImplementationLS) impl.getFeature("LS", "3.0");
DOMErrorHandlerImpl eh = new DOMErrorHandlerImpl(); Output out =
new Output();
LSSerializer writer = implLS.createLSSerializer();
writer.getDomConfig().setParameter("error-handler",
newDOMErrorHandlerImpl()); out.setSystemId(argv[1]);
writer.write(doc,out); System.out.println("//////// finished
/////////");
} catch (Exception ex) { System.out.println("Error occurred"
+ex); }

Great overview. I have posted a related post on my blog focusing on using XInclude in XML used in conjunction with xsl:include for XSL transformation to achieve XML reusability.

For example, if one includes this document:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="toxhtml.xsl"?>
<document>
  <para>content</para>

</document>

Into this one:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<book>
  <xi:include xmlns:xi="…" href="…"/>
</book>

What elements will be included ? document and para, or
html/body/p ?