Selective validation or "validation from a standpoint"...

Laurent R. Therond · Oct 22, 2004

Hi,

I searched for something like this, but could not locate any
information. I may have used bad keywords, or it does not make any
sense...

Anyhow, there it goes...

Let's say you overlay an XML document with markup of another
namespace, how would you tell a validating parser to ignore elements
of that other namespace?

Example:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>
Title
</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>
<another-namespace:insert id="0"/>
</h1>
</body>
</html>

Is there any kind of validating parser that could ignore the
"another-namespace"-specific markup and simply tell me whether this
XHTML document is valid?

Regards,

Laurent

Bjoern Hoehrmann · Oct 22, 2004

* Laurent R. Therond wrote in comp.text.xml:

Let's say you overlay an XML document with markup of another
namespace, how would you tell a validating parser to ignore elements
of that other namespace?

With DTDs that is not possible, you need to declare them, etc.

Is there any kind of validating parser that could ignore the
"another-namespace"-specific markup and simply tell me whether this
XHTML document is valid?

You could use a different schema language or you could strip anything
off the document that is not XHTML, a few lines in XSLT.

Joris Gillis · Oct 22, 2004

Is there any kind of validating parser that could ignore the

You could use a different schema language or you could strip anything
off the document that is not XHTML, a few lines in XSLT.

Those few lines could be:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
<xsl

utput method="xml" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="*">
<xsl:copy><xsl:apply-templates select="@*"/><xsl:apply-templates/></xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="@*">
<xsl:attribute name="{local-name()}"><xsl:value-of select="."/></xsl:attribute>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="*[namespace-uri() !='' and namespace-uri() != namespace-uri(/*)] "/>
<xsl:template match="@*[namespace-uri() !='' and namespace-uri() != namespace-uri(/*)] "/>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Unhelpful HTML validation	2	Mar 29, 2012
Even McMahon fails validation	21	Nov 17, 2011
xmlns attribute produces XHTML validation error.	3	Jun 25, 2007
Validation of viewstate MAC failed.	2	May 21, 2009
Validation of viewstate MAC failed	1	May 21, 2009
Validation Summary not showing for client side validation	1	Dec 12, 2008
XHTML - how extend/create ELEMENT body in my DTD?	0	Oct 29, 2019
Can someone tell me if this a real tracker? Or is it one designed to show you a different message at certain times, ie. acting like one?	0	Jan 10, 2021

Selective validation or "validation from a standpoint"...

Laurent R. Therond

Bjoern Hoehrmann

Joris Gillis

Ask a Question

Similar Threads

Members online

Forum statistics

Latest Threads