August 2001
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
11h 16m
English
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Name
unparsed-entity-uri() Function — Returns the URI of the unparsed entity with the specified name. If there is no such entity, unparsed-entity-uri returns an empty string.
Synopsis
stringunparsed-entity-uri(string)
Inputs
The name of the unparsed entity.
Output
The URI of the unparsed entity with the specified name.
Defined in
XSLT section 12.4, Miscellaneous Additional Functions.
Example
Unparsed entities are rarely used; they refer to non-XML data, as in the entity author-picture in this XML document:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE book [
<!ENTITY author-picture SYSTEM "dougtidwell.jpg" NDATA JPEG>
]>
<book>
<prolog cover-image="author-picture"/>
<body>
<p>Pretend that lots of useful content appears here.</p>
</body>
</book>We’ll use this stylesheet to process our unparsed entity:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="text"/>
<xsl:variable name="newline">
<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>
<xsl:text>A test of the unparsed-entity-uri() function:</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>
<xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>
<xsl:text> The cover image is located at </xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="unparsed-entity-uri(/book/prolog/@cover-image)"/>
<xsl:text>.</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>When we transform the XML document with our stylesheet, the results look like this:
A test of the unparsed-entity-uri() ...