At 2003-07-25 18:03 -0400, Taro Ikai wrote:
I sometimes want to keep the character entities as they are.
Is that outside of XSLT specification?
Keeping the characters represented by the entities is within the XSLT 1.0
specification.
Keeping the syntax used to represent the character entities in the file
used to create the XPath node tree is not within the XSLT 1.0 specification.
For all entities, the substitutions are made by the XML processor used by
the XSLT processor and the XSLT processor isn't told of any syntax that
might have been used for any of the markup ... all it sees is the
information as understood by the XML processor after accommodating the markup.
I hope this helps.
......................... Ken
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