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Re: [xsl] retaining entity declarations while converting from one xml format to another

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Hello David:

I am sorry I forgot to mention one piece of information here. These
input files were originally SGML and were then converted to well
formed XML files. The input shown below are well-formed XML. But I
want to do some preprocessing before I apply xslt and that is what I
am trying to do in the new xslt.

So when I do the <xsl:copy> the entities are not copied over.

Is this a wrong approach? Please advise.



On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 5:17 PM, David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> <!ENTITY spoon.jpg SYSTEM "spoon.jpg">
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> That looks very wrong, if that entity were used the jpg file would be
> parsed as XML, don't you mean an NDATA entity here?
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> XSLT has no record of parsed external entities, if you use NDATA
> entities then the entity definitions are passed to XSLT and may be
> accessed using the unparsed-entity-uri and similar function, although
> entity declarations can not be generated you can (perhaps) specify a
> doctype in xsl:output that contains the entities you need in the output.
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> David
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