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Re: xml in, xml out
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- Subject: Re: xml in, xml out
- From: Rick Geimer <Rick dot Geimer at nsc dot com>
- Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 11:57:12 -0700
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And lastly, as the list beat to death over the last few weeks, there is
currently no way in XSLT to perform an identity transform on a document
that accesses external entities from entity attributes (i.e. the
attribute value will be copied, but the entity declarations are lost).
Rick Geimer
National Semiconductor
rick.geimer@nsc.com
"DuCharme, Robert" wrote:
>
> >Also, in the XSLT spec 7.5, there's a template-driven identity transform
> >you could borrow (if you need something less straightforward than Mike's
> >elegant solution below). It's what you would adapt if you needed to provide
> >for some exception to your mimicking ("mimic all but the x elements...").
>
> Keep in mind that the spec's identity transformation will not copy comments.
> You'll need to add something like following if you want your input
> documents' comments copied to the output along with everything else:
>
> <xsl:template match="comment()">
> <xsl:comment><xsl:value-of select="."/></xsl:comment>
> </xsl:template>
>
> Bob DuCharme www.snee.com/bob <bob@
> snee.com> "The elements be kind to thee, and make thy
> spirits all of comfort!" Anthony and Cleopatra, III ii
>
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