RE: parsed entites

[Mark Hayes <mark@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Use /header.xml instead of \header.xml?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexandra Morgan [mailto:lexalex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, November 18, 1999 1:48 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: parsed entites
> 
> 
> I can't see what I'm doing wrong here. I'm using LotusXSL. 
> Internal entities work, but not external entities. Here are 
> the first few lines of my stylesheet:
> 
> <?xml version='1.0'?>
> <!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [
> <!ENTITY header SYSTEM "http://localhost\header.xml";>
> <!ENTITY yo "Yo!">
> ]>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/XSL/Transform/1.0";>
> 
> And here are the complete contents of header.xml:
> 
> <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
> 	<B>This is a nifty report. <HR/></B>
> 
> I can put the string &yo; in my templates and it copies the 
> text Yo! to the output as expected. But where I put &header; 
> the XSL processor reports an error.
> 
> TIA,
> Alex
> 
>  
> --
> 
> On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 16:46:14   G. Ken Holman wrote:
> >At 99/11/17 13:20 -0800, Alexandra Morgan wrote:
> >>As I understand it, entities have to be declared inside the 
> DOCTYPE. But 
> >>my stylesheets don't have a DTD. Can I have a DOCTYPE 
> without having a DTD?
> >
> >It isn't a problem to have a DOCTYPE without a DTD.
> >
> >When I work with the text output method, I usually create a 
> &nl; entity to 
> >emit line feeds in my output as follows:
> >
> ><?xml version="1.0"?>
> ><!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [
> ><!ENTITY nl "
> ">
> >]>
> ><xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
> >                 version="1.0">
> >
> ><xsl:output method="text"/>
> >
> ><xsl:template match="/">
> >   <xsl:text>&nl;</xsl:text>
> ></xsl:template>
> >
> ></xsl:stylesheet>
> >
> >
> >You can also have partial DTDs ... a common XSLT processing 
> requirement for 
> >well-formed documents is to recognize which attribute of 
> elements is of 
> >type ID (because there is nothing special conferred on 
> attributes that are 
> >*named* ID).
> >
> >To communicate this information regarding the source file to the 
> >stylesheet, the following can be added to the source:
> >
> ><!DOCTYPE custsummary [
> ><!ATTLIST cust custNbr ID #REQUIRED>
> >]>
> ><custsummary>
> >......
> >
> >I hope this helps.
> >
> >............ Ken
> >
> >
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