Reiner Schlenker wrote: > is it possible in XXE to reuse fragments of XML-documents by adressing them > with XPath-expressions in the Xpointer-statement? I have tried, but get a > parsing-error. This would be extremely helpful to build up modular > documents. > > Example: > >>From the following section, only the <para>-elements with the values 'a' and > 'c' in the id-attribute shall be referenced into a <chapter>-Element. > > > ----- > <section> > <title>Title</title> > > <para id="a">Para 1</para> > > <para id="b">Para 2</para> > > <para id="c">Para 3</para> > </section> > > > --------------- > > <chapter> > <title>Chapter</title> > <section> > <xi:include href="Section.xml" > xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"; > xpointer(//pa...@id='a'] | //pa...@id='c'])/> > </section> > </chapter> > > -------------- >
No, this is not possible. XXE only supports the element() scheme and not the xpointer() scheme. Moreover, supporting the xpointer() scheme is not planned.
