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Add my vote to the list. This is one of the main reasons why I don't use XSLT for complex transformation tasks. Rick Geimer National Semiconductor rick.geimer@xxxxxxx Eric van der Vlist wrote: > > David Carlisle wrote: > > > > But your output won't contain any entity references unless you have > > even more such kludges, so removing this one kludge wouldn't help much > > would it? > > I think that this is a real problem. > A XML transformation language should (IMHO) be able to produce whatever > valid XML you want to produce and it's not the case with XSLT without > nasty kludges. > > I think Dave's suggestion makes sense (even if it's only a partial one) > together with an extension to produce references to external entities > (something like <xslext:entity select="ent"/>). > > This would be a very partial solution since it wouldn't transform the > entities read in the XML input document back into entity references > unless you want to implement a mechanism as nasty as the one which is > inserting the entity references in the HTML output methods :( > > Eric > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Eric van der Vlist Dyomedea http://dyomedea.com > http://xmlfr.org http://4xt.org http://ducotede.com > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > 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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