Re: Transforming entity declarations and entities

On 12/7/05, Tommy Skarateppen <developer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have this file generated from Adobe FrameMaker:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE journal SYSTEM "mydtd.dtd" [
>
> <!-- Begin Document Specific Declarations -->
>
> <?Fm Validation Off?>
>
>
> <!ENTITY bkc1 SYSTEM "beta-8-2004-journalfront-1.ent">
> <!ENTITY bkc2 SYSTEM "beta-8-2004-2.ent">
> <!ENTITY bkc3 SYSTEM "beta-8-2004-journalback-3.ent">
>
> <!-- End Document Specific Declarations -->
>
> ]>
> <?Fm Book?><journal>&bkc1;&bkc2;&bkc3;</journal>
>
>
> The entity names are automatically generated from FrameMaker, but I want
> to have them changed, so the output file would look something like this:
>
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE journal SYSTEM "mydtd.dtd" [
>
> <!-- Begin Document Specific Declarations -->
>
> <?Fm Validation Off?>
>
>
> <!ENTITY beta-8-2004-journalfront-1.ent SYSTEM
> "beta-8-2004-journalfront-1.ent"> <!ENTITY
> beta-8-2004-journalfront-2.ent SYSTEM "beta-8-2004-2.ent"> <!ENTITY
> beta-8-2004-journalfront-3.ent SYSTEM "beta-8-2004-journalback-3.ent">
>
> <!-- End Document Specific Declarations -->
>
> ]>
> <?Fm
> Book?><journal>&beta-8-2004-journalfront-1.ent;&beta-8-2004-journalfront
> -2.ent;&beta-8-2004-journalfront-3.ent;</journal>
>
> Is this possible to do in XSLT?

No, all entity definitions are resolved by the XML parser before XSLT
gets involved.  A text editor should give you the ability to do a
search and replace in files (UltraEdit for example).

cheers
andrew