2 comments:

(a) you're confusing entities with entity references

(b) I think it's useful to distinguish the serializer as a separate
component, because this helps people to understand why d-o-e doesn't always
work (e.g. in Firefox, there is no serialization, and therefore d-o-e has no
effect.)

Regards,

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Costello, Roger L. [mailto:costello@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 16 December 2009 15:40
> To: 'xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject:  Entities in XSLT (from XML parsing to XSLT 
> processing to output)
> 
> 
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I put together a few slides to show how entities in an XSLT 
> document go through stages of entity-resolving and entity-escaping.
> 
> Would you take a look to see if my understanding is correct please?
> 
>      http://www.xfront.com/XSLT-entities.pdf
> 
> /Roger