Hi Robert,
An EntityResolver cannot return anything other than an input stream to be
parsed. That has nothing to do with Xalan-C -- that's what SAX defines an
EntityResolver. So I'm not sure I understand your question. Are you
saying you don't want to return a stream of XML? If not, what do you want
to read. If so, is there some reason why your EntityResolver cannot return
a stream that contains the XML for the included or imported stylesheet?
What you may be looking for is something like the JAXP URIResolver. We
had a discussion a while back on implementing something like this, but I
don't think we ever reached any conclusions.
Thanks!
Dave
Robert
Zimmermann To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: (bcc: David N
Bertoni/Cambridge/IBM)
Subject: entity resolution in XSLT
escpecially in XALAN-C
12/16/2003 04:58
PM
Please respond
to xalan-dev
Hi,
I have a general question to entity resolution in xslt:
Is an xslt processor allowed to return an altered SystemId
instead of an input stream for e.g. on of the following
xslt elements?
<xsl:include href="external.xslt" />
or
<xsl:import href="external.xslt" />
The general answer for EntityResolvers is that they may
also return another System Identifier instead an
file-like-object created throug "makeStream" of an
InputSource.
I looked at the API documentation of XALAN-C, especially
XSLTInputSource.
For me it seems that this class only provides an resolution
to an input stream rather than just accepting an altered
system-id and try to open this source itself.
Why do I ask:
I want to build a small repository of xsl stylesheets to be
included in an application without for the users to worry
about the real place, where they are stored.
thanks a lot for Your help,
Robert
Robert Zimmermann
Development
WEB.DE AG
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