Re: [xsl] Why aren't ENTITY declarations in a main stylesheet visible in

> I thought that an xs:include is essentially a "macro substitution", in which 
> case the entity declaration should be visible, yes?
No, each stylesheet module is parsed independently using a standard XML parser. 
Entity expansion is done by the XML parser, which has no knowledge of XSLT and 
no interest in xsl:include or xsl:import elements.

Michael Kay
Saxonica
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