Subject: Re: Entity system identifier? From: Tony Graham <tgraham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 17:18:21 -0500 (EST) |
At 24 Dec 1998 09:23 +0700, James Clark wrote: > There isn't a mechanism for doing this. Are you talking about external > data entities or external parsed entities? If the former, there is an > issue (data-entity) on this, but I suspect it will be tough to get > support for this in, given how little external data entities seem to be > used in the XML world. If the latter, I don't understand why you would > need it. Since my original question was for ENTITY attribute values, I'm/We're talking about external unparsed entities. Support for external data entities and notations would ease re-use of originally SGML data with XSL applications. Having said that, replacing ENTITY attributes with href-style attributes as part of an SGML-to-XML transformation isn't that difficult either. Not supporting external data entities and notations in XSL effectively scuttles their use with XML. Without support in XSL, external data entities will see minimal use in the XML world. That's not to say that everybody would use them if XSL supported them, but there's little utility in using them if your stylesheet can't "get" the object being referenced as an external data entity. Regards, Tony Graham ====================================================================== Tony Graham mailto:tgraham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9632 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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