2.3. Using urid:fetch

URI driver elements

You construct an XDIME page, which uses the urid:fetch element, in the same way as a regular, stand-alone page. You must, however, remember about the namespace declaration for the XDIME URI driver prefix.
```
xmlns:urid="http://www.volantis.com/xmlns/marlin-uri-driver"
```

The urid:fetch element's href attribute points to the file containing the XDIME fragment that forms the Jive page header. It will be added to the final page at runtime.

<body>
  <!-- The common material for the page header -->
  <urid:fetch href="jiveheader.xdinc"/>
  <!-- Page Title -->
  <h2 id="title">Human Resources</h2>
  <!-- The article -->
  <div id="article">
    <p> Jive sports prides itself on hiring and retaining the best and brightest
      people. Our Human Resources group ensures that our personnel have the best
      working environment to allow them to perform at their peak, delivering the
      best products and services to our customers. </p>
     ...
  </div>
  <!-- The common material for the page footer -->
  <urid:fetch href="jivefooter.xdinc"/>
</body>

The footer is specified in the same way
```
<urid:fetch href="jivefooter.xdinc"/>
```
The rest of the code contains the HR page specific content

Using transforms

The urid:fetch element can optionally be wrapped in the pipeline:transform element. This allows you convert or filter the data with and XSL transform, before adding it to a page. This approach is useful when external content is in another XML vocabulary. You will learn more about this mechanism later on.

Complete XDIME 2 code

Create a dci_humanResources.xdime file in ${MCS_HOME}/webapps/mcs.war/tutorial/

Modify the dci_humanResources.xdime file by including the following code

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2002/06/xhtml2"
  xmlns:urid="http://www.volantis.com/xmlns/marlin-uri-driver"
  xmlns:mcs="http://www.volantis.com/xmlns/2006/01/xdime/mcs">
  <head>
    <title>Human Resources</title>
    <!-- Links to the layout and theme for this page -->
    <link rel="mcs:layout" href="/jivearticle.mlyt"/>
    <link rel="mcs:theme" href="/jive.mthm"/>
  </head>
  <!-- Page body -->
  <body>
    <!-- The common material for the page header -->
    <urid:fetch href="jiveheader.xdinc"/>
    <!-- Page Title -->
    <h2 id="title">Human Resources</h2>
    <!-- The article -->
    <div id="article">
      <p> Jive sports prides itself on hiring and retaining the best and brightest
        people. Our Human Resources group ensures that our personnel have the best
        working environment to allow them to perform at their peak, delivering the
        best products and services to our customers. </p>
      <div class="company_item">
        <h3 class="company_header">Benefits</h3>
        <p>
          <a href="#">Benefits Information Center</a>
        </p>
        <p>
          <a href="#">Providers</a>
        </p>
        <p>
          <a href="#">Group Programs</a>
        </p>
      </div>
      <div class="company_item">
        <h3 class="company_header">Resources</h3>
        <p>
          <a href="#">Documents</a>
        </p>
        <p>
          <a href="#">Personnel</a>
        </p>
        <p>
          <a href="#">Workplace Information</a>
        </p>
        <p>
          <a href="#">Training</a>
        </p>
      </div>
      <div class="company_item">
        <h3 class="company_header">Job Opportunities</h3>
        <p>
          <a href="#">Current open positions</a>
        </p>
      </div>
      <div class="company_item">
        <h3 class="company_header">Travel Center</h3>
        <p>
          <a href="#">Travel Center</a>
        </p>
      </div>
    </div>
    <!-- The common material for the page footer -->
    <urid:fetch href="jivefooter.xdinc"/>
  </body>
</html>

Checklist

Name	Purpose
a	Used to create an explicit link to another place in the same document or to another document. The current document is the source of the link and the value of the `href` attribute, defines the link target
body	Contains the document's content.
div	A section used to add extra structure to documents. Style sheets can be used to control the presentation.
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6	Heading elements for sections within a document. The number associated with each element indicates its relative position in the hierarchy of headings, with 1 indicating the beginning level and 6 the ending level.
head	Information such as the title and other metadata that is not document content. The contained `title` element is required and it must be the first child of the `head` element.
html	The container for the XDIME 2 document.
link	Defines a link. Multiple links and relationships may be defined for a single document. Refer to the topic entitled Document relationship links for more information.
p	Block element that defines a paragraph.
title	The `title` element is used to identify the document. `title` is required and it must be the first child of the `head` element.
urid:fetch	Specifies a driver URI.
Core attributes	Attributes that are common to XDIME 2 elements.
Hypertext attributes	Attributes that define link targets.