Unfortunately, XML documents can quickly become lengthy. XML is quite verbose, and sometimes we just want to store a lot of data. Editing 20 MB files can be memory hungry, and finding your way around them, nearly impossible. XInclude solves the problem by enhancing XML with an xi:include element that lets you build composite documents. XInclude lets you specify a file or URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) that should be treated as if it replaced the xi:include element.

A W3C specification defining a general purpose inclusion mechanism for XML documents; see http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude.

A processing model and syntax for including content from other sources in an XML document. See the section "Using XInclude" for more information.

Provides a simple way of including an XML file into an existing XML document.

XInclude is a processing model and syntax for general purpose XML inclusion. Inclusion is accomplished by merging a number of XML information sets into a single composite infoset.