Modular samplemap xml

[RCJacH]

Can we add the function to import other xml files in our samplemap xml? Either with XInclude or XML eternal entities.

The ability to split xml content into different modules would be very helpful when maintaining large and complex samplemaps.

For reference:

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa302291.aspx
• http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-external-ent
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5121052/can-we-import-xml-file-into-another-xml-file

[d.healey]

Can you give an example use case?

[RCJacH]

@d-healey Well let's look at guitar libraries again. Each string has a SampleMap consisting different articulations, and each articulation has lots of velocity layers and perhaps many RRs, that's many thousand lines of <sample />. If we can split each articulation of each string to a separated XML, each file might only contain tens or at most hundreds, not only easier to read, but also easier to manipulate with select all function in text editors.

[d.healey]

@rcjach You might be better off using a dedicated XML editor rather than a text editor for your sample maps.