Re: [xsl] ENTITY declaration

["Joe Fawcett" <joefawcett@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Sebastian Tennant" <sebyte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 12:14 PM
Subject: [xsl] ENTITY declaration


> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to create an entity for an XSL element I'm using over and
> over again:
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [
> <!ENTITY content="<xsl:value-of select='.' />">
> ]>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
>  <xsl:output method="html" indent="yes" />
> [...]
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> I'm using Emacs' nxml mode, and adding this prologue with the entity
> declaration immediately invalidates the document.  Also the final '>'
> on the ENTITY line isn't highlighted properly, so I must be doing
> something horribly worng, but I can't figure out what it is?
>
> TIA
>
> sdt
I'm fairly sure you can't access content in a source document from the DTD.
I think the best you can do is store it in an xsl:variable in the stylesheet 
and reuse it that way.

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Joe