[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: Resolving ENTITY attributes
I second the motion for including this capability in XSL. It is fairly common practice to reference images via entity attributes. It would be a shame to have to pre-process XML with these kind of figure references just to be able to use them with XSL. Rick Geimer National Semiconductor rick.geimer@xxxxxxx Richard Light wrote: > Reading the XSLT spec, I don't see a way of resolving ENTITY-type > attribute values. > > If I am using XSLT to produce HTML from my XML source, one obvious > transformation is to convert ENTITY attribute values to strings > containing the actual URL of the target. > > Thus I would want to render the <xmlimg> element in e.g. (where the src > attribute is of type ENTITY): > > <!DOCTYPE xmldoc ... [ > <!ENTITY img1 SYSTEM "image1.gif" NDATA gif> > ... > ]> > <xmldoc> > ... > <xmlimg src="img1"/> > ... > </xmldoc> > > as: > > <IMG SRC="image1.gif"> > > in the resulting HTML. > > Is there a way to do this? If not, I think there should be. > > Richard Light. > > Richard Light > SGML/XML and Museum Information Consultancy > richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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