Hi, I have inlined a patch that allows xinclude statements in xml files. I presume I cannot send attachments to the list? Motivation: I have my own tools I am developing managed in tools/my_tools. I want to version that directory, etc, but want to be able to include new tools without editing the tools_conf.xml in galaxy_dist each time which would not get versioned. Solution: use xinclude to include an xml file that contains tool definitions. Example tool_conf.xml: <toolbox xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> .... <xi:include href="tools/my_tools/tool_conf.xml" parse="xml" /> </toolbox> Patch below, cheers, James ============== diff -r 3b6771227a43 lib/galaxy/util/__init__.py --- a/lib/galaxy/util/__init__.py Fri Sep 26 09:10:04 2008 -0400 +++ b/lib/galaxy/util/__init__.py Mon Sep 29 15:50:20 2008 +0100 @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ from galaxy.util.docutils_ext.htmlfrag import Writer as HTMLFragWriter pkg_resources.require( 'elementtree' ) -from elementtree import ElementTree +from elementtree import ElementTree, ElementInclude log = logging.getLogger(__name__) _lock = threading.RLock() @@ -64,6 +64,8 @@ def parse_xml(fname): """Returns an parsed xml tree""" tree = ElementTree.parse(fname) + root = tree.getroot() + ElementInclude.include(root) return tree def xml_to_string(elem): ================