Re: DOM Interfaces & XInclude

On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 16:37 -0600, Ray Whitmer wrote:
> DOM is fairly easy to expand.  I suspect your strongest case for a new
> standard option would be made by implementing it and demonstrating the concept
> in concert with others who see it as a benefit.  I never went very far with
> XInclude, because it never seemed to solve (when I last saw it) character
> entities, parameter entities, and other aspects of entities I found most-
> useful but those advocating XInclude wanted to avoid, sure that XInclude would
> be of compelling use without it.

Having an LS option to make the use of XInclude transparent at load
would be fairly easy.
However, I can't think of a way to handle the save operation, mainly due
to the support of XPointer. At best, we can load the included tree with
readonly nodes, and excluded them at save time.

Philippe