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Imaginative, but it won't work. Entity references are expanded by the XML parser, they are never seen by the XSLT processor. The XSLT processor cannot influence how XML entities are expanded, by the time it gets to see the source tree, the job has already been done. Michael Kay > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of silvan > Sent: 25 August 2003 14:19 > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: parsing entities > > > Dear List > > Does anyone has an idea about how to do > dynamic calls of external entities? > In the xslfile i have a set of Entities defined > which should get included according to the parsed > xml; > > <!ENTITY foo "value_foo"> > <!ENTITY bar "value_bar"> > > > the xml looks somewhat similar to; > > <elem name="foo"> > <elem_foo>blah</elem_foo> > </elem> > <elem name="bar"> > <elem_bar>blah</elem_bar> > </elem> > > > ... and now i try to fetch the appropriate > entities according to an element's name attribute > > > <xsl:for-each select="elem"> > <!-- &{@name}; --> > </xsl:for-each> > > The above obviously won't work, just shows the > basic idea of assigning Entities depending on > a node's attribute. > > Maybe there's already a mistake in understanding... > Any ideas etc. highly appreciated > > > thanx > silvan > > 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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