Ha ha, awesome Liam! Thank you for clarifying! Best, Bridger
On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 9:37 PM Liam R. E. Quin <l...@fromoldbooks.org> wrote: > On Tue, 2019-09-10 at 02:59 +0200, Andreas Mixich wrote: > > I wonder why the serialization behaves that way. It does not make > > sense to > > me. If a user has the need to escape XML, it should be thorough, > > shouldn't it? > > XML entities are expanded by he XML parser, so by the time XQuery (or > XSLT) sees the document they are gone. > > Consider an entity like > <!ENTITY boy > "<person><socks>black</socks><eyes>grey</eyes><name>Steven</name></pers > on>"> > > <students>&boy</students> > > It'd be really complex to have that visible to XPath and to have to > write, e.g. > ..../students/entity(*)/person > > If it's an external parsed entity it's visible in that the base-uri > property changes, but that's all. > > Character entities like &rcedilla; (ŗ) are just special cases of > general entities, and XML does not distinguish them. I wish it did, but > we never got back to that work after publishing XML 1.0. > > Liam > > -- > Liam Quin, https://www.delightfulcomputing.com/ > Available for XML/Document/Information Architecture/XSLT/ > XSL/XQuery/Web/Text Processing/A11Y training, work & consulting. > Web slave for vintage clipart http://www.fromoldbooks.org/ > >
