Let me add to this,

what would be even better would be the ability to inject this external
entity into the *source* XML tree for processing. This would allow the
important ability to merge several XML documents together into an output
document.

Currently, this is done by pre-processing the XML documents into a merged
document.

Jonathan Borden
http://jabr.ne.mediaone.net

> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of G. Ken Holman
> Subject: Feature Request: equivalent to DSSSL read-entity function
>
>
> In my training materials I would like to inject the text string equivalent
> of the contents of an external file.  By "text string
> equivalent", I expect
> the read function to translate characters matching the built-in entities
> into entity references.


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