ENTITY refs and xsl unparsed-entity-uri() function

["Ross L. Wayland" <rl...@virginia.edu>]

Hi,

I've encountered a problem with the way Xalan handles ENTITY references.
For
example, I have several hundred xml source files with structures similar
to:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!ENTITY conditions SYSTEM
"http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ead/conditions.html"
NDATA html>
.
.
.
<extref entityref="conditions" inline="true">Conditions of Use</extref>


This should allow you to use a stylesheet like:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
.
.
.

<xsl:template match="extref">
        <xsl:element name="A"><xsl:attribute name="HREF">
        <xsl:value-of
select="unparsed-entity-uri(@entityref)"/></xsl:attribute>
        <xsl:value-of select="."/></xsl:element><BR/>
</xsl:template>

to transform the xml source into html that looks something like:

<A HREF="http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ead/conditions.html">Conditions
of Use</A>

Xalan fails to resolve the ENTITY reference correctly. I didn't see any
mention
of Xalan not supporting ENTITY refs in the docs or on the mailing list
archives.
Can anyone tell me if this is a known bug or if am I trying to use the
unparsed-entity-uri function in a nonstandard mannner? Has anyone else
run into
this problem?

Thanks in advance for any pointers...

Ross

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