RE: [xsl] Can I suppress entity substitution in XSLT?

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 06:35 AM 7/28/2003, Andrew wrote:
> 4.  (iirc) You can implement your own EntityResolver() in java, and then 
> set the parser to look there to resolve entities.  This gives you control 
> of what gets passed back, so I think you can just pass back the entity 
> reference.  I'm not too sure how you would get on further down the chain - 
> I used this a while back to parse lots of xml that refencened dtd's that 
> were unreachable (can't remember why offhand...) but its nice because it's 
> all done with java (no nasty separate text processing stuff :)
>
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/api/org/xml/sax/EntityResolver.html

If I understand correctly, this will prevent the processor from resolving 
entity references, instead putting the references themselves in the text. 
You'll still need disable-output-escaping to avoid getting & amp;ldquo; for 
& ldquo;, so the solution is still subject to the limitations of the d-o-e 
based approaches. It is, however, the only technique mentioned so far that 
actually "preserves" the entity references from the source.

Cheers,
Wendell


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