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Re: substrings with entities or not.
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- Subject: Re: [xsl] substrings with entities or not.
- From: David Carlisle <davidc at nag dot co dot uk>
- Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 18:46:16 GMT
- References: <00BB1956AE40D411B5B60050DA27311F3C60DB@MAIL>
- Reply-To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
> My problem is that I can't really
> guarantee that I'm going to have either the character or the entity in my
> source.
Either way, the XSLT engine will see the same thing as any entities are
expanded by the XML parser before XSLT starts up. (Conceptually, the two
processes may interleave in the implementation)
> can I use
Thus the answer to your question is yes.
David
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