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From: "Sean Kelly" <kelly@ad1440.net>
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Subject: Re: question about embedded data in XML
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 13:55:23 -0800
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> This means that within XML, there is NO WAY WHATEVER
> to embed XML within an XML document, right?  What if
> the "embedded" XML were encoded, might that work?
> Any other ideas for workarounds?

How about setting the content type of the element to
contain embedded the XML as ANY ...

<!ELEMENT root (title, xml)>
<!ELEMENT title (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT xml ANY>

So a doc like this is valid:

<root>
  <title>My Embedded XML</title>
  <xml>
    <foo>
      <bar>baz</bar>
      <eeep/>
    </foo>
  </xml>
</root>

Alternatively, encode the embedded XML using a format
opaque to XML---say base-64, and store that as CDATA.
You could then embed the <?xml...?> processing
instruction, DOCTYPE declaration, schema declaration,
etc., too.

--Sean