[dsdl-discuss] Re: Entity renaming

At 2005-12-12 19:27 +0000, Martin Bryan wrote:
> > A DOM data model contains entity references ... could you use
> > that?
>
>Not declaratively. I'd prefer to do it using a technique that can be mimiced
>in XSLT,

Then you won't be able to support entity preservation or renaming
because the XPath data model for both XSLT 1 and 2 does not include a
concept for an entity reference.

>What I did find, however, was that if I put
>the replacement string in a variable and then invoked that I got what I
>wanted.

Not sure what you are saying there, but whatever it is I'm guessing
you are going beyond the bounds of the XPath data model.

> > What is the use case for entity renaming?
>
>Two main ones:
>
>1) Entity reference retention (  ->   rather than  )
>2) Localization/easier comprehension for people with limited English (&et;
>or ∧ rather than &)

I'm quite sure both of those are covered in XSLT 2 character
maps. Both of them are mapping a Unicode character into an entity
reference ... not preserving input entities nor creating an entity
for a string of characters.

. . . . . . Ken

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