Is there an "include" directive in XML?

[Marc Clifton]

I want to be able to concatenate several XML files together, and I can't find anything on W3C.org that says xml has an "include" tag. Does it? Am I blind? Or am I screwed? Conversely, the reason I need this is because the stupid XmlDataDocument.Load method can't be called more than once. It requires a blank document, and there is no Append or similar function. X| Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
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[Michael A Barnhart]

No you are not blind. There was an include processor command but it was rather unsecure do a google on "Xml eXternal Entity" and was removed if my memory is working tonight. :-O Take a look at XInclude (candidate recomendations) and XLink (recomendation) XInclude[^] XLink[^] ""

[Richard Deeming]

Have a look at the ImportNode and AppendChild methods. Something like this should work:

XmlDataDocument doc1 = LoadDoc1();
XmlDataDocument doc2 = LoadDoc2();
foreach(XmlNode source in doc2.DocumentElement.ChildNodes)
doc1.DocumentElement.AppendChild(doc1.ImportNode(source, true));

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