RE: [xsl] storing translatable text outside stylesheets

["Michael Kay" <mhkay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> However, when I add this reference to the entity file to the top of my
> stylesheet:
> <!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [
> <!ENTITY % stylesheettext SYSTEM "stylesheettext.ent"> ]>

You've declared a parameter entity that references an external file that
presumably contains the definitions of a number of general entities such as
&symbol; . But you haven't invoked this parameter entity, so the definitions
of your general entities are not actually processed.

Mike Kay
>
> And then use entity references like this in the stylesheet,
> the entities
> symbol and desc having been declared in the entity file:
> <xsl:template match="FigLegend">
> 	<table><tr><th>&symbol;</th><th>&desc;</th></tr>
> 	<tr><td><xsl:value-of select="LegendEntry/Symbol"/></td>
> 	<td><xsl:value-of select="LegendEntry/Desc"/></td></tr></table>
> </xsl:template>
>
> Saxon (with its default parser) gives an error:
>   org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: reference to undeclared entity (found
> "symbol")
> : reference to undeclared entity (found "symbol")
>
> When I declare the entities in the internal DTD subset, e.g.
> <!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [
> <!ENTITY symbol "Symbol"> ]>
>
> then it does work. So it seems like Saxon isn't reading the
> external entity.
> Am I doing something wrong, or does Saxon (Aelfred) not support this?
>
> Linda
>
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