[xml] excluded from include

[Rick Jones <rick_jones2 hp com>]

i am clearly missing something obvious - i have looked at some of the
archive discussion on Xinclude, and i _think_ i am follwoing it
correctly, but i do not appear to be including in the following xml
file:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<netperf xmlns="http://www.netperf.org/ns/netperf";
        xmlns:nettest_bsd="http://www.netperf.org/ns/netperf/nettest_bsd";
        xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude";
>
<server id="1">
        <host>foo.bar.baz</host>
        <port>12345</port>
        <family>AF_INET</family>
</server>

<server id="2">
        <host>bing.fred.ethel</host>
        <port>12345</port>
        <family>AF_INET</family>
</server>

<test id="1">
        <type>SEND_TCP_STREAM</type>
        <library>libnettest_bsd.sl</library>
        <companion>2</companion>
        <nettest_bsd:specific>
                <nettest_bsd:source>foo.bar.baz</nettest_bsd:source>
                <nettest_bsd:sourcefamily>AF_INET</nettest_bsd:sourcefamily>
                <nettest_bsd:sourceport>1234</nettest_bsd:sourceport>
                <nettest_bsd:sndbuf>32768</nettest_bsd:sndbuf>
                <nettest_bsd:rcvbuf>32768</nettest_bsd:rcvbuf>
                <nettest_bsd:sendsize>4KB</nettest_bsd:sendsize>
                <nettest_bsd:nodelay>0</nettest_bsd:nodelay>
                <nettest_bsd:destination>bin.fred.ethel</nettest_bsd:destination>
                <nettest_bsd:destport>0</nettest_bsd:destport>
                <nettest_bsd:destfamily>AF_INET</nettest_bsd:destfamily>
                <nettest_bsd:sendalign>8</nettest_bsd:sendalign>
                <nettest_bsd:sendoffset>0</nettest_bsd:sendoffset>
        </nettest_bsd:specific>
</test>

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<test id="2">
        <type>RECV_TCP_STREAM</type>
        <library>libnettest_bsd.sl</library>
        <companion>1</companion>
        <nettest_bsd:specific>
                <nettest_bsd:source>bing.fred.ethel</nettest_bsd:source>
                <nettest_bsd:sourcefamily>AF_INET</nettest_bsd:sourcefamily>
                <nettest_bsd:sourceport>0</nettest_bsd:sourceport>
                <nettest_bsd:sndbuf>32768</nettest_bsd:sndbuf>
                <nettest_bsd:rcvbuf>32768</nettest_bsd:rcvbuf>
                <nettest_bsd:recvsize>4KB</nettest_bsd:recvsize>
                <nettest_bsd:recvalign>8</nettest_bsd:recvalign>
                <nettest_bsd:recvoffset>0</nettest_bsd:recvoffset>
        </nettest_bsd:specific>
</test>

<xi:include href="sub.xml" />

</netperf>

I anticipate that this config file for a benchmark could become very
very large (thousands of entries) and so getting include to function
could be useful.

Other things with which I am struggling include:

*) when to use attributes versus sub-entities

*) multiple DTDs or later XML schemas in a document - perhaps coming
with includes, but perhaps having a DTD specified for the "specfic"
portions of the test element. i am hoping to have this benchmark be
rather "plugin" and not necessarily require someone to edit a main DTD
file each time to specify additional DTD's when the add a new test
suite.

rick jones
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