including small bits of XML as entities

[Thomas Jones]

Karsten Wade wrote:
<snip>

>You can put _anything_ that is valid XML in a file and call it as an
>entity.  Wherever you call the entity, it must be valid or an error will
>occur.
>  
>
I am not sure about the emacs side, but you can also utilize XInclude 
for this also.

I use it very often to include "literal" data. Here's a included content 
from one of my websites files:

  File: `xml/docbook'
  Size: 256           Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: 344h/836d    Inode: 173614      Links: 5
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: ( 1000/  user)   Gid: (  100/   group)
Access: 2005-03-02 22:06:08.986521152 -0600
Modify: 2005-03-02 21:54:37.266678552 -0600
Change: 2005-03-02 21:54:37.266678552 -0600



and call it thusly using the following xml source:

<section>
<title>Statistics</title>
<programlisting>
<xi:include href="directory.stat" 
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" parse="text">
<xi:fallback>
<warning>FIXME:  MISSING XINCLUDE CONTENT</warning>
</xi:fallback>
</xi:include>
</programlisting>
</section>

As you can see the usage is vast. Given the actual content was not 
displayed --  I thought I would throw this out there for everyone. Of 
course applicability does depend on content structure --- i.e. 
structured or unstructured.

Maybe somebody here at fedora-docs can use this information. ;)
Thomas