RE: [xsl] Converting &entities; with XSLT?

[Lee Goddard <home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 13:09 07/04/2001 +0100, you wrote:
> > Is it possible to use XSLT to catch all character entities
> > and convert them to something else?  How could I go about this?
>
> The XSLT processor sees exactly the same input whether a character was
> represented by itself or by a character reference. So you can't "catch"
> character references.
>
> If you want to perform lexical transformations of your XML, rather than
> structural transformations, you may be better off using Perl.


Thanks.  I knew that really, just hoped.
I've been doing it in Perl, and want to
cut a layer of processing at a different
layer of the production system.

Regards
lee


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