Can XNA Content Pipeline split one content file into several .xnb?

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Published on 2011-03-28T14:07:11Z Indexed on 2012/09/04 9:50 UTC
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Let's say I have an xml file which looks like this

<Weapons>
 <Weapon>
  <Name>Pistol</Name>
  ...
 </Weapon>
 <Weapon>
  <Name>MachineGun</Name>
  ...
 </Weapon>
</Weapons>

Would it be possible to use a custom importer/writer/reader to create two files, Pistol.xnb and MachineGun.xnb which I can load individually with Content.Load()?

While writing this I realized I could just import a Weapon[] list and split them up with a helper, but I'm still wondering if this is possible?

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