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

[Laurent R. Therond]

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]

* 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]

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"> <xslutput 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>