No, entity references are expanded by the XML parser, and the XSLT processor
has no way of discovering that they ever existed.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mukul Gandhi [mailto:mukul_gandhi@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 14 June 2005 07:25
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Reading "entity references" from DTD, using 
> XSLT (1.0 or 2.0)
> 
> I have a question ..
> 
> I am using XSLT 1.0 language ;) I may migrate to XSLT
> 2.0, if the need arises ..
> 
> I am given a XML document, which has some entity
> references .. The entities are resolved in the DTD
> file for this XML ..
> 
> Can I read the entity reference in the XSLT (1.0 or
> 2.0) stylesheet from the DTD of a XML ?
> 
> Regards,
> Mukul
> 
> 
> 
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