Processing external data entities
From: Tony Graham <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 18:55:53 -0500
David Megginson writes:
> Without the QUERY feature (i.e. in Jade), is there any way to deal
> with an external data entity that is not specified as an attribute
> value on an element?
>
> Consider the following declarations:
>
> <!NOTATION source PUBLIC "-//megginson//NOTATION Source Code//EN">
> <!ENTITY code PUBLIC "-//megginson//NONSGML Program Listing 1//EN"
> NDATA source>
>
> In the style language, it is easy to handle
>
> <listing source=code>
>
> using
>
> (element LISTING
> ...)
>
>
> but, as far as I can tell, there is no way to get at the entity's
> contents in the following:
>
> <listing>
> &code;
> </listing>
Truth to tell, I (and possibly several others) have yet to have to
handle your first case of "<listing source=code>". Can you explain
how it would be done?
Regards,
Tony Graham
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