Subject: Re: feature request From: "Rick Geimer" <Rick.Geimer@xxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 14:46:36 -0700 |
Actually, National primarily uses entities in the internal subset to manage graphics (i.e. unparsed external entites). The entities are then referenced in entity attributes. For instance: <!DOCTYPE foo [ <!ENTITY test SYSTEM "test.tif" NDATA tiff> ]> <foo> <image ref="test"/> </foo> Basically, this is a holdover from our SGML applications, and has been carried over into our XML systems for compatibility. Unfortunately, we don't have the option of chucking our entire system to accomodate XSLT, and personally I don't think we should have to. Entites in the internal subset are a feature of XML 1.0, and in my opinion, should be supported by XSLT. Until that happens, I don't plan to use XSLT for anything other than HTML creation, since it simply doesn't fit into our publishing model as a general XML to XML transformation tool. Rick Geimer National Semiconductor rick.geimer@xxxxxxx David Carlisle wrote: > > > Add my vote to the list. This is one of the main reasons why I don't use > > XSLT for complex transformation tasks. > > Just trying to understand the requirement, > > what entity references do you want in the result? > > character entities that just expand to a uniciode character (or base and > some unicode combining characters) > > arbitrary internal entities that expand to some clump of xml marked up > text that you want to reuse > > or > > references to external parsed entities? > > David > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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