Alex Milowski wrote: > > In theory, you should be able to have both of these in the same document: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> > <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN" > "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd";> > <article> > <phrase id="myprod">My New Product Name</phrase> > <phrase id="otherprod">My Other Product Name</phrase> > <title>Test</title> > > <sect1> > <title>Test</title> > > <para>First product <xi:include href="#myprod" > xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>.</para> > > <para>Second product <xi:include href="#otherprod" > xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>.</para> > </sect1> > </article> > > I was not able to make this work. If I load the above into XML mind it > complains > about an inclusion loop--which doesn't exist as the targets of the > inclusion > is *not* an ancestor. > > I also checked with a colleague of mine on the XML Core WG about this > and it is > correct that this example should work.
Your colleague is right. This is a limitation of XXE that needs to be documented.
