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Re: feature request
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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