Re: The entity was referenced, but not declared.

>  Is there any way I can avoid or fix this problem from the XSLT stylesheet
without having to modify the input XLIFF files?

No, there isn't. The source document isn't well-formed XML, and nothing you do
in the stylesheet can change that.

You could try reading the input using unparsed-text(). Using Saxon-PE 12.2 you
could then do

saxon:replace-with($input, "&[A-Za-z]+;",
function($str){char(translate($str, "B';", ""))})

Explanation: saxon:replace-with is a function proposed for addition to XPath
4.0 that acts like replace(), but applying a user-defined function to compute
the replacement string. The user-defined function in this case invokes the new
XPath 4.0 fn:char() function, which recognizes HTML entity names, for example
char('ndash') returns the character U+2013. With luck the result will be a
well-formed XML document that you can then parse using the parse-xml()
function.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

> On 12 Jun 2023, at 23:48, Manuel Souto Pico terminolator@xxxxxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I'm trying to convert a collection of XLIFF files into TMX. The files
contain some HTML named entities, which makes my stylesheet choke:
>
> Error on line 8 column 64 of file.xlf:
>   SXXP0003   Error reported by XML parser: The entity "ndash" was
referenced, but not
>   declared.: The entity "ndash" was referenced, but not declared.
> Error
>   SXXP0003  collection(): failed to parse XML file
>
file:/home/souto/Sync/PISA25/Assets/PISA2022/03_Preprocessed_MS/input_dir/fil
e.xlf: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; systemId:
file:/home/souto/Sync/PISA25/Assets/PISA2022/03_Preprocessed_MS/input_dir/fil
e.xlf; lineNumber: 8; columnNumber: 64; The entity "ndash" was referenced, but
not declared.
> collection(): failed to parse XML file
file:/home/souto/Sync/PISA25/Assets/PISA2022/03_Preprocessed_MS/input_dir/fil
e.xlf: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; systemId:
file:/home/souto/Sync/PISA25/Assets/PISA2022/03_Preprocessed_MS/input_dir/fil
e.xlf; lineNumber: 8; columnNumber: 64; The entity "ndash" was referenced, but
not declared.
>
> Even though the preamble of my stylesheet says:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
> <!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [
>     <!ENTITY ndash "&#x2013;" >
>     <!ENTITY mdash "&#x2014;" >
> ]>
> <xsl:stylesheet ...
>
> My question is: Is there any way I can avoid or fix this problem from the
XSLT stylesheet without having to modify the input XLIFF files?
>
> The example above is with ndash but I believe there must be many HTM named
entities in the files.
>
> Thanks a lot in advance.
> Cheers, Manuel
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