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Re: feature request
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@nsc.com
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
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