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   RE: [xml-dev] Well-established uses of processing instructions?

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n.
> 
> For cross-platform portability, just use the default entity 
> parser, have a
> little CGI at the URL to provide the date. Or have a cron job 
> generate a
> file with the date every night and reference that.  I don't get why a
> special entity resolver is required?

No, of course an EntityResolver isn't the only way of doing it. As you point
out, there are other ways of solving this problem.

Perhaps I'm unusual, but I find it easier to write

<xsl:template match="processing-instruction('current-dateTime')">
  <xsl:value-of select="current-dateTime()"/>
</xsl:template>

than to set up CGIs and cron jobs.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/






 

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