unparsed-entity-uri Function
Returns the URI of the unparsed entity.
string unparsed-entity-uri(string name)
Parameter
- Name
The name of the entity desired. The entity must be defined in the same document as the context node.
Return Values
Returns a URI string of the unparsed entity if the entity is defined. Otherwise, it returns an empty string.
Example
This example demonstrates the unparsed-entity-uri() function to retrieve the path of the image file, somepic.jpg, which has been associated with the pic entity.
XML File (data.xml)
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="sample.xsl"?>
<!DOCTYPE catalog [
<!ELEMENT catalog ANY>
<!ELEMENT book ANY>
<!ELEMENT title ANY>
<!NOTATION JPEG SYSTEM "urn:myNamespace">
<!ENTITY pic SYSTEM "somepic.jpg" NDATA JPEG>
]>
<catalog>
<book>
<title>XML Developer's Guide</title>
</book>
<book>
<title>Midnight Rain</title>
</book>
</catalog>
XSLT File (sample.xsl)
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
<h3>unparsed-entity-uri()</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<b>unparsed-entity-uri('pic')</b> =
<xsl:value-of select="unparsed-entity-uri('pic')"/>
</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
This is the formatted output:
unparsed-entity-uri()
unparsed-entity-uri('pic') = file:///C:/path/somepic.jpg
This is the processor output:
<html>
<body>
<h3>unparsed-entity-uri()</h3>
<ul>
<li><b>unparsed-entity-uri('pic')</b> =
file:///C:/path/somepic.jpg </li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>