Hi Marco,
In BaseX, there’s just a little line of code that enables or disables XInclude [1]. If no one else reacts to your question, maybe people on a generic XML mailing lists (such as [2]) can give you better feedback on this.
Ciao Christian
[1] https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex/blob/master/basex-core/src/main/java/org/ba... [2] http://www.xml.org/xml-dev/
On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 2:21 PM Marco Randazzo Marco.Randazzo@iit.it wrote:
Dear all, My example (in attachment) employs xi:include elements to include other xml files. The example is constituted by a main.xml file which includes another file (include1.xml) stored in a subfolder, called include1.
include1.xml, in turn, includes another xml file (include2.xml) stored in a subfolder of include1 which is called include2.
Overall, the example consists of four folder levels and only the last file, include4.xml, contains data.
When I import main.xml in baseX, I obtain the following result:
<main xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
<level1 xml:base="./include1/include1.xml">
<level2 xml:base="./include1/include2/include2.xml"> <level3 xml:base="./include2/include3/include3.xml"> <level4 xml:base="./include3/include4/include4.xml"> <data>0</data> <data>1</data> </level4> </level3> </level2></level1>
</main>
The xml tree is correct, but I have doubts about the value of the attribute xml:base. In particular:
level1: I think that the value of xml:base ( i.e. ./include1/include1.xml) is correct.
level2: xml:base value is correct if its meaning is a path relative to the root file. Otherwise, if xml:base is supposed to store a path relative to the current file, then it should be ./include2/include2.xml.
level3: This seems to be not correct, neither as an absolute path, nor as a relative path. I think it should be ./include1/include2/include3/include3.xml as a path relative to the root file or ./include3/include3.xml as a path relative to the current file.
level4: Same as level3.
What do you think? Am I missing something? What are the specifications for the value of xml:base? Thank you, Marco Randazzo