Re: [xsl] How to modify a RDF document and preserve the <!DOCTYPE rdf:RDF[ and entity references?

[Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>]

The short answer is you can't as the information gets lost when the
xml is parsed.  There is an argument asking why you would want to -
why do you want to recreate the entity refs?  XML is much nicer when a
DTD isn't involved... :)

Either way, if you really have to recreate the entity refs then (in
Java) you can supply the XMLReader with your own LexicalHandler and
DeclHandler to capture the parse events and turn them into markup and
processing instructions to make the information available to your
transform.  This is what Lexev does (http://andrewjwelch.com/lexev/)
but it doesn't handle entity refs in attributes...  so its not much
use here.


On 6 March 2011 12:27, Alex Muir <alex.g.muir@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What do I need to add to an xslt 2.0 stylesheet that modifies an RDF
> file which has a doctype declaration with entity references. I'm not
> certain how to preserve the DOCTYPE here exactly as shown and also
> preserve the entity references such &wiki; within the document.
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE rdf:RDF[
>    <!ENTITY rdf 'http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#'>
>    <!ENTITY rdfs 'http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#'>
>    <!ENTITY owl 'http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#'>
>    <!ENTITY swivt 'http://semantic-mediawiki.org/swivt/1.0#'>
>    <!ENTITY wiki 'http://p13.itawiki.org/wiki/Special:URIResolver/'>
>    <!ENTITY property
> 'http://p13.itawiki.org/wiki/Special:URIResolver/Property-3A'>
>    <!ENTITY wikiurl 'http://localhost/wiki/'>
> ]>
>
> <rdf:RDF
>    xmlns:rdf="&rdf;"
>    xmlns:rdfs="&rdfs;"
>    xmlns:owl ="&owl;"
>    xmlns:swivt="&swivt;"
>    xmlns:wiki="&wiki;"
>    xmlns:property="&property;">
>
> Currently this is being replaced
> <property:Office rdf:resource="&wiki;BX"/>
>
> as this in my xslt.
>  <property:Office
> rdf:resource="http://p13.itawiki.org/wiki/Special:URIResolver/BX"/>
>
> I've been reading some old posts on this but I haven't been able to
> key in on the right solution via google.
>
> Regards
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