(Hacky) XML includes

[Rush Manbert <rush (at) manbert.com>]

Jason Viers wrote:
> Michael Abbott wrote:
>
> > As an example for an included file:
> >
> >   <AnElement>
> >     blah
> >   </AnElement>
> >
> >   <AnotherElement>
> >     blah
> >   </AnotherElement>
> >
> >   
>
>
> If that's the full, exact contents if an included file, then the problem 
> is that XML documents can only have 1 root node.  Just wrap the entire 
> contents in another tag.
>
> <elements>
>  <AnElement>blah</AnElement>
>  <AnotherElement>blah</AnotherElement>
>  ...
> </elements>
>
> That should stop the technical problem, but it'd definitely be good to 
> look into using real XIncludes that Daniel mentioned.

I'll add 2 cents more. If it is possible in your situation, you might 
look into doing this with XSLT. I do something like this and it's really 
not that hard. I apply the XSL stylesheet using the libxslt facilities.

- Rush
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