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Subject: Re: Entity references in xml output
From: Claudio Sacerdoti Coen <sacerdot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 18:39:40 +0100
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 18:23:27 +0100, Zsolt Czinkos wrote:
>... 
> My letter wasn't clear enough, I think.

It was clear, but I partly misunderstood it.

> I would like to do the
> following:
> 
> 1. From source:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <!DOCTYPE articles [
> 	<!ENTITY % characters SYSTEM "entities/chars.ent">
> 	%characters;
> ]>
> <articles date="2000-02-22">
> <article>
> 	<title>Blah blah blah &eacute; bla &odblac; ...</title>
> 	<body>Blah again and again and &bdquo; &myentity;</body>
> </article>
> </articles>
> 
> 2. With an XSLT transformation
> 
> 3. get the following :
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <!DOCTYPE daily [
> 	<!ENTITY % characters SYSTEM "entities/chars.ent">
> 	%characters;
> ]>
> <daily date="2000-02-22">
> <article2>
> 	<title2>Blah blah blah &eacute; bla &odblac; ...</title2>
> 	<body2>Blah again and again and &bdquo; &myentity;</body2>
> </article2>
> </daily>
> 
> 
> So, I'd like to have entities in output.
> ------------------------------

Using <xsl:text disable-output-escaping> you can have entities in output...
but only if you create them from scratch in the stylesheet, not if they
are yet in the source document. So you are almost right:

 1) If you must create entities from scratch use
    <xsl:text disable-output-escaping>
 2) If you must preserve input entities then I think there is really
    no standard solution ;-(  (But I hope I hadn't reason!)
    Some processors ouput the entities (eg. using cocoon the "&#...;"
    that stands for MathML's "&Lambda;" is mapped to "&Lambda;"), some
    do not.

>... 

					Sorry for the insufficient help,
						  C.S.C.

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