Re: [xsl] Reading "entity references" from DTD, using XSLT (1.0 or 2.0)

[Mukul Gandhi <mukul_gandhi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you David for the answer .. I'll have more
questions :)

Regards,
Mukul

--- David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
>      If I have a entity definition &n; in DTD. Can I
> get
>     the value of it in XSLT stylesheet ..?
> 
> 
> As Mike said (and you must surely see when you run
> any example) you
> _only_ have access to the value: All entity
> references are replaced by
> the entities they reference by an XML parser before
> XSLT starts.
> So if you define the entity n to be abc
> <x>&n;</x> appears to xslt as <x>abc</x>.
> 
> If the entity is defined but not used then you have
> no access to it from XSLT.
> 
> David
> 
>
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