I am using XSLT to extract data from 1 XML file to another XML file. Is there a way to copy the graphic entities?

The input xml file would have a graphic entity like this:

<!ENTITY c130h1130003b SYSTEM "H:\Publication Illustrations\Books\cgm\c130h1130003b.cgm" NDATA cgm>

I need to copy this verbatim during transformation into the new XML file.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Sarah

I'm afraid XSLT has very limited support for unparsed entities. In XSLT 1.0 this is limited to the unparsed-entity-uri() function, which allows you to determine the system ID of an entity if you know its name. In XSLT 2.9 this is supplemented by unparsed-entity-public-id(), which allows you to discover the public ID as well. But there is no way of discovering the names of the entities that have been declared. (As the shopkeepers always say, there's no demand for it luv, no-one buys unparsed entities these days...)

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

Except Arbortext.

Thanks for the update will have to go to plan B.

Sarah

How exciting, a new release :)

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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)