Re: xml param

[Mike Brown <mike at skew dot org>]

> Using xalan I can pass a param to the stylesheet. The question is: Can I 
> pass a param to the xml?

You can put some character data in an entity, and refer to that entity by
its URI in the XML document.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE [ <!ENTITY myParam SYSTEM "someURI"> ]>
<myData>
  <foo>&myParam;</foo>
</myData>

Your XML parser must be able to resolve someURI, so typically it will have
to be a path to a file on a local system, or a network location beginning
with http://. In theory you could extend whatever resolver the parser is
using and make it handle a custom URI that identifies character data you
are passing in from elsewhere.

   - Mike
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