[XML-SIG] Parsers which include external parsed entities

[Gabe Wachob]

Are there any parsers out there which automatically include external
parsed entities? 

I am building an app which has (to begin with) a list of items (urls) and
a categorization breakdown of those items. I'd like to keep the items in a
separate file from the categorizations and "glue" them together for
purposes of the application in a third file by including external parsed
entity references to those other xml files. I could parse them as separate
files, but thats not "pretty" (but it probably is more efficient ;-)

I've found that I have to pipe my xml files through SGMLNORM (which, ugh,
upcases all my tags) to get this effect. 

Is there a technical reason why these parses DON'T automatically "include"
externally parsed entities when producing SAX or ESIS (and then DOM)
output? I know there is no requirement that the external entities be
parsed, but are there parsers (written in Python or other languages) that
you can force to include external parsed entities?

	-Gabe

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