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RE: How to spell "No PSVI" in XSLT 2.0 ?

• To: "Evan Lenz" <evan@e...>,"Uche Ogbuji" <uche.ogbuji@f...>,"Jeni Tennison" <jeni@j...>
• Subject: RE: How to spell "No PSVI" in XSLT 2.0 ?
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 09:00:30 -0400
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <NDBBLMPNADEOOKGELJALEECBCJAA.evan@e...>
• References: <NDBBLMPNADEOOKGELJALEECBCJAA.evan@e...>

At 10:53 AM -0700 5/14/02, Evan Lenz wrote:

>No, this isn't right at all. Skipped entity references are simply invisible
>to the data model, i.e. lost, just like anything else that's not significant
>in the data model. This is a very important distinction. Otherwise, it would
>be impossible to use a non-validating parser with XSLT.
>

That's exactly what I'm claiming. It is impossible to use a 
non-validating parser with XSLT, or, more precisely, it is impossible 
to use a parser which does not read the DTD and resolve external 
entity references. Section 5.2 of the XPath spec clearly states:

Entity references to both internal and external entities are 
expanded. Character references are resolved.

There just isn't an option for leaving them out as you seem to want to do.
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