Re: Resolving ENTITY attributes

Subject: Re: Resolving ENTITY attributes
From: Rick Geimer <rick.geimer@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 09:18:07 -0700
I second the motion for including this capability in XSL. It is fairly
common practice to reference images via entity attributes. It would be a
shame to have to pre-process XML with these kind of figure references just
to be able to use them with XSL.

Rick Geimer
National Semiconductor
rick.geimer@xxxxxxx

Richard Light wrote:

> Reading the XSLT spec, I don't see a way of resolving ENTITY-type
> attribute values.
>
> If I am using XSLT to produce HTML from my XML source, one obvious
> transformation is to convert ENTITY attribute values to strings
> containing the actual URL of the target.
>
> Thus I would want to render the <xmlimg> element in e.g. (where the src
> attribute is of type ENTITY):
>
> <!DOCTYPE xmldoc ... [
> <!ENTITY img1 SYSTEM "image1.gif" NDATA gif>
> ...
> ]>
> <xmldoc>
> ...
> <xmlimg src="img1"/>
> ...
> </xmldoc>
>
> as:
>
> <IMG SRC="image1.gif">
>
> in the resulting HTML.
>
> Is there a way to do this?  If not, I think there should be.
>
> Richard Light.
>
> Richard Light
> SGML/XML and Museum Information Consultancy
> richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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