How to implement fragements?

[Siegfried Heintze]

I've decided that there might be some problems requiring my users to store everything in a single XML file.

I've read about the fragment tag but I don't understand how it works.

Is there some standard feature, perhaps the fragment tag, that will help me load a single parent DOM and then load several child DOMs from separate DOM files and insert them into the parent DOM (preferably using a shallow copy) so that a single XPATH expression will search the parent as well as the child DOMs?

Thanks,
Siegfried

[Paul Clapham]

What you're describing in your requirement sounds rather like XInclude to me. I believe that the Java 6 versions of the XML parsers have been extended to support XInclude, but beyond that I know very little about it.