Would this variation work?  It's slightly easier to implement.

  <mydoc1>
   content
  </mydoc1>
  <mydoc2>
   metadata
  </mydoc2>

-Lars
Lars Nooden (lars@umich.edu)
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On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Peter Karman wrote:
[snip]
>> Can swish-e process two separate XML files (content + metadata) as one
>> if they are concatenated?
>
> yes. if by concat'd you mean:
>
> <mydoc>
>  metadata
>  content
> </mydoc>
>
> so that it remains a valid XML doc.
[snip]