CR: XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.1

XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.1

http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/CR-xinclude-11-20150630/

feedback due by: 2015-08-25

Abstract

This document specifies a processing model and syntax for general purpose inclusion. Inclusion is accomplished by merging a number of XML information sets into a single composite infoset. Specification of the XML documents (infosets) to be merged and control over the merging process is expressed in XML-friendly syntax (elements, attributes, URI references).

Status of the Document

This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. Other documents may supersede this document. A list of current W3C publications and the latest revision of this technical report can be found in the W3C technical reports index at http://www.w3.org/TR/.

This is a Candidate Recommendation of XInclude 1.1 for review by W3C Members and other interested parties. The Last Call period ended 17 January 2015. There were no comments to this latest Last Call (all previous comments having been incorporated into the Last Call and all commentors having been satisfied).

XInclude 1.1 adds some upward-compatible enhancements to the XInclude 1.0 Recommendation as discussed in the XInclude 1.1 Requirement and Use Cases document. The three key enhancements can be summarized as follows:added support for a fragment identifier into text/plain content,additional processing to allow for “annotating” the post-included infoset with further information, andallow implementations the flexibility to support additional parse values.

This document has been produced by the W3C XML Core Working Group as part of the XML Activity. The Working Group expects to advance this Candidate Recommendation to Recommendation Status. We expect to exit the CR period with at least two interoperable implementations of all the features being added as part of XInclude 1.1. We will not exit CR before 25 August 2015 by which time we do expect to have sufficient implementation experience.

Please send comments about this document to the public www-xml-xinclude-comments@w3.org mailing-list; archives are available.

Publication as a Candidate Recommendation does not imply endorsement by the W3C Membership. This is a draft document and may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite this document as other than work in progress.

Known implementations are documented in the XInclude Implementation Report at http://www.w3.org/XML/2013/10/xinclude-11-impl-report/. A Test Suite is maintained at http://www.w3.org/XML/2013/10/xinclude-11-test-suite/ to help in assessing conformance to this specification. The latest release of the Test Suite includes new test cases which implementers can use to check their conformance to the changes included in this new edition.

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This document is governed by the 14 October 2005 W3C Process Document.