Re: [PHP-XML-DEV] XML & XSL: Entities

On 3.10.2004 16:12 Uhr, Vivian Steller wrote:
> Entities like   a.o. are ommitted while XSL processing:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <!DOCTYPE stylesheet SYSTEM "./DTD/entities.dtd">
> 
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
>         <xsl:output method="html" omit-xml-declaration="no"/>
>         <xsl:template match="/">
>                 &nbsp;
>                 <xsl:apply-templates/>
>         </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> 
> output is: (html source)
> 
>         
>                 Test
>         
> 
> [including whitespaces]
> 
> How to prevent them from being ignored?

They are not ommitted, but expanded.

> Other question: is there a possibility to automatically resolve standard
> entities like &nbsp; within DOMDocuments, or do we really have to write a
> whole DTD for each document to use those entities? 

There are no standard entities in XML, therefore you always have to 
include the correct DTD.


> Entities and Encodings are very tricky in DOM, arent't them... ?

No, it's quite logical once you got the idea ;)

chregu

> 
> Any suggestions are apreciated.
> 
> thanks in advance
> vivi
> 

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