Copy an embedded DTD from source XML in XLST...

[Greg Jones]

Hello,

This may be a simple question but difficult to search on since the keywords are so generic.

Is there a way, in XSLT, to copy an embedded DTD from the source XML to the target XML? Using 'match="processing-instruction"' doesn't work. I have been forced to simply output the DTD in the XSLT with <xslt:text>.

Any ideas? Thanks!

 

[Martin Honnen]

Greg Jones wrote:

This may be a simple question but difficult to search on since the keywords are so generic.

Is there a way, in XSLT, to copy an embedded DTD from the source XML to the target XML? Using 'match="processing-instruction"' doesn't work. I have been forced to simply output the DTD in the XSLT with <xslt:text>.

As DOCTYPE nodes are not part of the XSLT/XPath data model you can't copy (or otherwise process) them with XSLT.

 

[Greg Jones]

I bet no one reading this is smart enough to write an XSLT extension to handle embedded DTDs...

I dare you...

;-)

ps - thanks for the confirmation!

 

[Magnus Henriksson]

I bet no one reading this is smart enough to write an XSLT extension to handle embedded DTDs...

I dare you...

;-)

SAXON has an extension for this:
http://saxon.sourceforge.net/saxon6.5.3/extensions.html#saxon:doctype

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//Magnus