Date: Jun. 3, 1998
Link: http://www.oreilly.com/people/staff/crism/transclu.html
Source Author or Organization: Steven J. DeRose, Christopher R. Maden

The SGML community has had increasing interest in the capability of assembling document displays from multiple referenced parts. Elements in such documents reference other elements or objects that are retrieved on the fly and transparently displayed much as if their content had actually occurred inline. This is commonly called ``dynamic document assembly'' or ``boilerplating'' and traces back to the older notion of transclusion (dynamic data inclusion). Transclusion has previously been very theoretical, but is becoming less so daily, especially with the coming use of XML. This presentation looks at reasons for transclusion, possible problems, and some proposed solutions.