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Re: feature request
Rick Geimer wrote:
>
> Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>
> > Its a fair point, but I don't think its new. The X* specs were created
> > in public, by "users", not implementors (per se), and they almost all
> > seemed to have decided that entities should not survive a parse. Take
> > them to task, but take them on at a higher level than XSLT, imho.
>
> But what about unparsed entities? They never get parsed, so why don't
> they survive?
Sorry, this was poorly worded. I should have said, why can't they be
preserved. Of course they can be accessed via the unparsed-entity-uri
function, but I have no easy way to recreate them in the output document
without a hack like disable output escaping. In my opinion, this makes
XSLT poorly suited for near-identity XML transformations.
Rick Geimer
National Semiconductor
rick.geimer@nsc.com
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