Eden Ridgway's Blog

I stumbled across the Mvp.XML project, not surprisingly written by Microsoft MVPs :) Some of the features of the project are:

1. An implementation of the W3C XInclude specification (currently a recommendation). XInclude allows one to combine multiple XML (or text/html etc.) documents during processing using a linking syntax. The following article gives a pretty good description of why one would use it: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/07/31/xinclude.html. Here's the gist of the article:
   1. You can include XML in a document using entities, like the text below, but then it must be an XML fragment and not a proper XML document. Furthermore you can't include non-XML content such as plain text.
      <!DOCTYPE book SYSTEM "book.dtd" [
      <!ENTITY chapter1 SYSTEM "malapropisms.xml">
      ]>
   2. If any of the XML references in the declaration above are missing then the document is malformed. This is not the case with XInclude.
   3. To use XInclude the following markup could be included in the body of the document:
      <book xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
      <xi:include href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/malapropisms.xml"/>
      </book>
   4. To include unparsed text, the syntax would be as follows:
      <code>
      <xi:include parse="text" href="examples/SpellChecker.java" />
      </code>
   5. You can specify a fallback if the link is not loaded
2. XPointer is included - While XLink allows you to include an entire document, XPointer allows you to make a reference to a section of the document. For more read http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tipxpt/.
3. It includes several miscellaneous enhancements in a common module.