Subject: Re: Resolving ENTITY attributes From: "Chuck White" <chuck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 10:39:21 -0700 |
Entities are critical for us. I'd have to hope that the spec would be delayed, if it meant resolving this issue. Chuck White Creative Director Advance Recruitment Advertising, Inc. chuck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx visit the SF Bay Area's Premier Job Site: http://www.bajobs.com Rick Geimer wrote: >This is rather depressing, especially for the semiconductor industry, >since every company that I know of uses entity attributes for graphics, >according to the ECIX standard (the standard formerly known as >Pinnacles). > >This seems like a major oversight to me. This may be an example of the >standards committee getting insufficient feedback from implementers, >because I'm sure that there are many industries that use entity >attributes for this purpose. > >Could we get a show of hands to see how many people require this >functionality? > >Rick Geimer >National Semiconductor >rick.geimer@xxxxxxx > >James Clark wrote: > >> Richard Light wrote: >> >> > Reading the XSLT spec, I don't see a way of resolving ENTITY-type >> > attribute values. >> ... >> > Is there a way to do this? >> >> There isn't a way to do this. >> >> > If not, I think there should be. >> >> There is no plan to provide this functionality in version 1.0. This >> means that in XSLT 1.0 you'll have to use extensions to do almost >> anything useful with ENTITY attributes. >> >> James XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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