Based off of How to use xpointer with Xinclude to reference elements ...
I am having issues including a nested element using xpointer when the namespace urn contains multiple colons.
Test1.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Root xmlns="urn:some:namespace">
<element1 id="001">
<element2 id="001.1" order="1">
<element3 id="001.1.1"/>
</element2>
<element2 id="001.2" order="2">
<lement3 id="001.1.2"/>
</element2>
</element1>
</Root>
Test2.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Root>
<element1 id="999">
<element2 id="999.1" order="1">
<element3 id="999.1.1"/>
</element2>
</element1>
</Root>
Merge.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Root xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude">
<xi:include href="Test1.xml" xpointer="xmlns(ns=urn:some:namespace)xpointer(/ns:Root/ns:element1)" parse="xml" />
<xi:include href="Test2.xml" xpointer="xpointer(//Root/element1)" parse="xml" />
</Root>
Command:
xmllint --pretty 1 --xinclude Merge.xml
ERROR
Merge.xml:5: element include: XInclude error : XPointer evaluation failed: #xmlns(ns=urn:some:namespace)xpointer(/ns:Root/ns:element1)
Merge.xml:5: element include: XInclude error : could not load Test1.xml, and no fallback was found