Item6197: INCLUDE should accept XML

It would be helpful to support text/xml also.

Even when I try to use a pattern to skip over the xml header, INCLUDE ignores the page.

It looks to me like a one line change to TWiki.pm should resolve this:

       if( $contentType =~ /^text\/(html|xml)/ ) {

        } elsif( $contentType =~ /^text\/(plain|css|xml)/ ) {

When I tried this in my personal TWIKi installation, I was able to INCLUDE an XML file. I had to use TWiki:Plugins.BeautifierPlugin to view the results, but that shouldn't stand in the way of permitting xml to be INCLUDEd.

Is there a technical reason why XML should not be INCLUDEable?

-- TWiki:Main/VickiBrown - 27 Feb 2009

Hmmmm, a co-worker pointed out that XML could include its own <head, <body, or <script tags. We probably shouldn't just delete them completely. We also probably shouldn't just let them through.

Perhaps xml should have its own section with a variation on

 sub _cleanupIncludedHTML

 sub _cleanupIncludedXML

Co-worker has suggested a variation on verbatim to wrap everything in the XML body.. I think that would violate the Principle of Least Astonishment because INCLUDE never does that sort of thing. But I would be willing to be convinced.

My primary goal is to permit XML to be INCLUDEd. The How is implementation detail.

-- TWiki:Main.VickiBrown - 02 Mar 2009

Sounds like a sensible enhancement. Best to create a feature proposal to refine the spec: If to format xml or not, what to strip.

-- TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny - 03 Mar 2009