Re: [xsl] Preserving character references?

[Eric van der Vlist <vdv at dyomedea dot com>]

Wendell Piez wrote:
> 
> At 09:29 AM 1/12/01 +0000, David wrote:
> >your processor may allow some control (external to XSL) over the way the
> >XML output method linearises these characters, but you'd only be able
> >to control whether characters were (always) output in hex or decimal,
> >or via a general internal entity in some DTD, the information about how
> >that character was entered in the source file just isn't there.
> 
> That'd be a nice feature, to "re-reference" entities on output. Does anyone
> know any processors that support this?

You may want to have a look to an article [1] I have written presenting
a hack to do such a thing.

Eric

[1] http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/08/09/xslt/xslt.html

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