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Simpler, what about something around those lines:
Entity declaration:
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<e:entities xmlns:e="http://dyomedea.com/ns/entities";
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>
<e:element name="nbsp"
ns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";> </e:element>
<e:element name="signature" ns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>
<p>Eric van der Vlist</p>
</e:element>
</e:entities>
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Document:
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<html e:use="entities.xml" xmlns:e="http://dyomedea.com/ns/entities";
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; >
<body>
<div>
<p>This is a non breaking space: "<nbsp/>"</p>
<signature/>
</div>
</body>
</html>
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Processed through something such as:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:transform version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
xmlns:e="http://dyomedea.com/ns/entities";
>
<xsl:param name="entities" select="/*/@e:use"/>
<xsl:key name="elements" match="e:element" use="concat(@ns, ' ',
@name)"/>
<xsl:template match="@e:use"/>
<xsl:template match="@*">
<xsl:copy/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="*">
<xsl:variable name="node" select="."/>
<xsl:variable name="expanded-name" select="concat(namespace-uri(), '
', local-name())"/>
<xsl:for-each select="document($entities)">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="key('elements', $expanded-name)">
<xsl:apply-templates select="key('elements',
$expanded-name)/node()"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:for-each select="$node">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:transform>
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That gives:
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<html xmlns:e="http://dyomedea.com/ns/entities";
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>
<body>
<div>
<p>This is a non breaking space: " "</p>
<p foo="bar">Eric van der Vlist</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
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This could be seen as a generic way to formalise using empty elements as
references to "entities".
My (other) 0.02 Euros.
Eric
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