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XInclude becomes a W3C Recommendation
07-Jan-2005
In late 2004 the W3C announced the release of "XML Inclusions
(XInclude) Version 1.0" as a final Recommendation. Announced
near the winter holidays, the release did not receive major attention outside the XML community. The W3C summarizes that "XInclude 1.0 is a generic mechanism for merging XML documents," typically by way of reference. Many content management vendors -- particularly those focused on techdocs and single-source use-cases -- support content fragment re-use today largely through proprietary means. Now there is potential for important functionality to become more broadly standardized at the language and representation level. That's a good thing. Vendor support will inevitably lag the standard; nevertheless, it represents welcome news for the content management community...
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- Submitted by: Tony Byrne, Analyst
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