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<h2 id="example">Example</h2> <p>For example, including the text file license.txt: </p> This document is published under GNU Free Documentation License <p>in an <a href="/facts/XHTML/6qHnmJSg">XHTML</a> document: </p> <?xml version="1.0"?> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <head>...</head> <body> ... <p><xi:include href="license.txt" parse="text"/></p> </body> </html> <p>gives: </p> <?xml version="1.0"?> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <head>...</head> <body> ... <p>This document is published under GNU Free Documentation License</p> </body> </html> <p>The mechanism is similar to <a href="/facts/HTML/sSc3fT78">HTML</a>'s <object> tag (which is specific to the HTML <a href="/facts/Markup_language/WwhlNVIu">markup language</a>), but the XInclude mechanism works with any XML format, such as <a href="/facts/Scalable_Vector_Graphics/ARq5C3YV">SVG</a> and <a href="/facts/XHTML/6qHnmJSg">XHTML</a>. </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/XPath/0eCtJoj7">XPath</a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/">XInclude Standard</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2007/03/28/xinclude-processing-in-xslt-with-xipr.html">XInclude with XSLT</a></li> <li><a href="https://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/faq-xinclude.html">Using XInclude in Xerces</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/07/31/xinclude.html">Using XInclude</a> article by Elliotte Rusty Harold</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>J. Marsh; D. Orchard; Daniel Veillard. "XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0 (Second Edition), Appendix C: Examples (non-normative)". World Wide Web Consortium. Retrieved 2007-06-28. <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/#examples" target="_blank">http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/#examples</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Brettz9; et al. "XInclude". Mozilla Developer Network. <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XInclude" target="_blank">https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XInclude</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>