Re: xml entities

Subject: Re: xml entities
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 12:34:32 +0100
Robert,

I tested this, and it turns out you can't do it because of restrictions on
how parameter entities may work in internal DTD subsets.

If you put the DTD fragment into an external subset and invoke it with an
external identifier, Mike's solution works.

On the other hand, depending on the parser your implementation is using,
your mileage may vary....

Good luck,
Wendell

At 06:31 AM 6/19/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Thanks for the reply.
>
>I had tried this and it did not work either.  I am using Cocoon on linux. Is
>this a limitiation of cocoon?
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Mike Brown <mike@xxxxxxxx>
>To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2000 10:07 AM
>Subject: Re: xml entities
>
>
>> > I am wondering if someone can tell me how to do something like:
>> > <!DOCTYPE apage[
>> >     <!ENTITY logoid "0001">
>> >     <!ENTITY logo SYSTEM "sections/logo/l_xx_&logoid;.xml">
>> > ]>
>> >
>> > where the first entity defines a "variable" for the next entity.
>>
>> XML 1.0 provides "parameter" entities for this purpose.
>>
>> <!ENTITY % logoid "0001">
>> <!ENTITY logo SYSTEM "sections/logo/l_xx_%logoid;.xml">
>>
>>    - Mike
>> ____________________________________________________________________
>> Mike J. Brown, software engineer at         My XML/XSL resources:
>> webb.net in Denver, Colorado, USA           http://www.skew.org/xml/


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