[oXygen-user] Custom action to process a document and update an element?

[George Cristian Bina]

Hi Wendell,

For entities we were thinking to turn them into text before processing 
and make them back to entities after processing, for example

&something;

will be converted to

&something;

and apply the reverse on the result.

Best Regards,
George
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George Cristian Bina
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On 12/2/13, 4:22 PM, Wendell Piez wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 1:45 AM, Alex Jitianu <alex_jitianu at sync.ro> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> One aspect of using XQuery Update is that it will discard the DOCTYPE
>> and will also expand entities. So you might not end up with what you've
>> expected. We're investigating ways on our part to compensate for this
>> inherent losses.
>
> Yes. The same issue arises of course using XSLT.
>
> In the case of XSLT, I can imagine a post-process that would work by
> performing a (non-XML) parse of the source document to scan for a
> DOCTYPE declaration and for entity references, find the declarations
> for the latter, and generate an XSLT near-identity transformation that
> would serve as a post-process to restore them.
>
> It wouldn't be perfect, as it would effectively normalize entity
> references, and it would only work for entities that expand to single
> characters. On the other hand it might be good enough for daily wear.
>
> (I guess it would have to map all declared entities, not only those
> used, since the results could conceivably include content not in the
> source. It would also have to be optional, since there would be cases
> when switching a document type or cleaning up entities might be the
> point of the process.)
>
> I would be sympathetic to those who felt this sort of complication
> demonstrates that the functionality isn't a good idea in the
> architecture. Certainly, it would be a good way to shoot yourself in
> the foot.
>
> Cheers, Wendell
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