I took a quick glance in the XSD for WiX 2.0 and Component isn't allowed as a child of Include. It is, however, allowed in WiX 3.0.
-----Original Message----- From: Mark Modrall [mailto:mmodr...@mzinga.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 4:31 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Include question. I did find another example in our old wix code in a different merge module. It uses the same syntax as before for the include file(s) but there's a slight twist: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2003/01/wi";> <Module Id="ForumsAspModule" Guid=" ????????-????-????-????-????????????" Language="1033" Version="1.0.0.0"> <Package Id=" ????????-????-????-????-????????????" Description="Files in /ASP" Comments="Files in /ASP" Manufacturer="Prospero Technologies" InstallerVersion="200" Compressed="yes" /> <Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir"> <?include ForumsAsp.wxi ?> <Directory Id="dcard" Name="dcard"> <?include ForumsAspDcard.wxi ?> </Directory> </Directory> </Module> </Wix> The first <?include?> file has only subdirectories in it. The 2nd one, like my original problem has root files and subdirs - but wrapping it in an explicit subdirectory seems to avoid the problem. So it looks like it's only a problem to include <Component Id="xxx" Guid=""> <File.../> </Component> Directly under <Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir"> I did make sure that the msi wix file did actually have a <Merge> and <MergeRef> for the modules being produced... Thanks Mark -----Original Message----- From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 1:21 AM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Include question. That suggestion doesn't make sense to me. <?include?> doesn't incorporate the included file as a different fragment, it "imports" the file at the location of the processing instruction in building the DOM actually presented to the compiler proper, making it lay in the same fragment. Also, merge modules don't include features, so there's no Feature under which to place the ComponentRef. And, in when building MSIs instead of MSMs, if you miss the ComponentRef under some Feature, your component is still included in the MSI (assuming the fragment the component is in was otherwise included by the linker) but you get an error indicating that the component won't be installed because it isn't included in any components. It may possibly be a bug. If you migrate your solution to WiX 3.whatever, does it still happen? I don't know if 2.0 would be fixed or not for something like this since 3.0 has been RTM for quite some time now. -----Original Message----- From: Mark Modrall [mailto:mmodr...@mzinga.com] Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 6:45 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Include question. Thanks for the reply... I'm not adding any ComponentRef, so that's probably it. Just out of curiosity, adding a <Directory> under a <Directory> is automatically included but file references (bundled under a <Component>) won't? Thanks Mark -----Original Message----- From: jhennessey [mailto:jack.hennes...@hyland.com] Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 7:52 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Include question. Are you adding a ComponentRef for ASPcomponent0 under a feature? 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