Question: Using $include to build packages

I have usually used $include within a module when building packages, where the included file has all the procedures.

What I would like to have is to have the module itself in an external file which would be included.

read "this:///lib/NODEFunctions";
savelib('NODEFunctions', "this://");

$include "NODEXML.mm"
# read "this:///lib/NODEXML";
savelib('NODEXML', "this://");

The first 2 lines show the usual way I do it, where NODEFunctions is a module within the Maple file. In that file there is an $include for the proc() parts only.

The second attempt unfortunatly throws a "Error, unexpected string" error. I have tried both with and with a ; at the end of the $include line.

"NODEXML.mm" is a file with the complete module definition with proc().