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

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

> I am sorry I forgot to mention one piece of information here. These
> input files were originally SGML and were then converted to well

but assuming spoon.jpg is a jpeg file, the same would apply in SGML as
well, image entities should be NDATA (not parsed) and referenced as
attribute values, not using &  ; notation.

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

parsed entities (referenced by &) are expanded by the XML parser before
XSLT even sees the input. So XSLT can not copy them as it never sees
them.

But you can not reference a jpg file that way.

An NDATA entity is referenced as attribute value typically
something like

<!ENTITY spoon.jpg SYSTEM "spoon.jpg" NDATA jpg>

...
 <image ref="spoon.jpg"/>
...

if you access the entity this way, then the attribute value is available
to xslt and you can look up the SYSTEM URI using unparsed-entity-uri().


But you showed a parsed entity declaration



<!ENTITY spoon.jpg SYSTEM "spoon.jpg" >

which would be acceessed by

& s p o o n . j p g ;

such a reference would be expanded by the xml parser before xslt sees
the data (and generate a fatal error if it is a jpeg file rather than
xml)

As you haven't shown how you are referencing the entities in the source
file I can't really guess what to suggest.

david

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