Davy Toch wrote: >> What you suggest certainly makes sense. The problem is that currently, >> for XXE, <xi:include> elements (like managed references to external >> entities and namespace prefixes) only exist at document load time and at >> document save time. > > But XXE only seems to have a problem with XIncludes that have > parse="text" as attribute. Normal XIncludes that select XML fragments > from other > DocBook documents are not replaced by the actual XML fragments when > modifying and saving the document. >
A text fragment included from an external document is almost always merged into an *existing* Text node. Moreover a Text node is a lightweight object carrying very few information. In a nutshell, the implementation of XXE does not allow to treat text fragments on par with elements.
