[xsl] Re: Tracking entity references

["Chris Papademetrious christopher.papademetrious@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Frank,

My understanding is that entities are resolved by the XML parser itself, so
once you're at the point where the content is ready to be queried, the source
of the content is lost.

It's yucky, but maybe you could globally search-and-replace a copy of the
files to add processing instructions just before each entity reference?


  *   Chris

From: Wegmann, Frank frank.wegmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 6:23 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [xsl] Tracking entity references

This may be a very silly question, but I couldn't find an answer on it, with
Saxon, or outside it, using tools relying on expat.

Use case is a set of old XML documents (traditional, inhouse DTD) that make
overly excessive use of entities of all kinds. While it is easy to get all
entity declarations, and also to locate references of external entities, I
could not locate references of text entities. By the time I see it the entity
reference has already been resolved. How can I achieve that (ideally with
line/column of the actual place in the original file or entity)?

I very much hope that I just overlooked something here...

Thanks,
Frank Wegmann
Software AG



Software AG - Sitz/Registered office: Uhlandstra_e 12, 64297 Darmstadt,
Germany - Registergericht/Commercial register: Darmstadt HRB 1562 -
Vorstand/Management Board: Sanjay Brahmawar (Vorsitzender/Chairman), Daniela
B|nger, Joshua Husk, Dr. Benno Quade, Dr. Stefan Sigg -
Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender/Chairman of the Supervisory Board: Christian Lucas -
https://www.softwareag.com
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.softwareag.com__;!!A4F2R9G_pg!a_xGrIl
9G7DmZem8CCemylMb_MA-AbtXQVfmOFQv2cih86gdUpF7MaY2XSsqexGhxkUtVwULRNQuAxHjV9G7
UR8t-k8CNKrlQlCYYI4mcROWzeQDRcf_$>
XSL-List info and
archive<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list__
;!!A4F2R9G_pg!a_xGrIl9G7DmZem8CCemylMb_MA-AbtXQVfmOFQv2cih86gdUpF7MaY2XSsqexG
hxkUtVwULRNQuAxHjV9G7UR8t-k8CNKrlQlCYYI4mcROWzaPViOD6$>
EasyUnsubscribe<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/lists.mulberrytech.com/unsu
b/xsl-list/3380743__;!!A4F2R9G_pg!a_xGrIl9G7DmZem8CCemylMb_MA-AbtXQVfmOFQv2ci
h86gdUpF7MaY2XSsqexGhxkUtVwULRNQuAxHjV9G7UR8t-k8CNKrlQlCYYI4mcROWzZebLS9r$>
(by email<>)