RE: Declaring internal entities in an xsl-file

["Mattias Beermann" <webmaster@xxxxxxxx>]

> The MS parser does all kinds of what I think are strange things.

I can agree on that...

> But yes, in this case I'd go ahead and shut off validation. Per
> the thread
> on XSL-List earlier this week (I know, the archive is down),
> validation and
> XSLT processing do not generally play well together, even with other
> (non-MS) parsers. That's because the XSLT elements and variables are in a
> different vocabulary than the result tree's (XHTML's, in your
> case), and it
> can be quite tricky to "merge" them into one vocab, with one DTD.

I havent played around much with namespaces yet, but say that you have two
namespaces in a documment, then to validate the document, do you have to
merge the two dtds into one, or is there a simpler/better way?

> I don't think it's necessarily "bad practice" to create documents that
> haven't been validated, especially in the case of XSLT where it can
> actually be bad practice (as you're finding) to *force*
> validation. If your
> source document is valid, that's the important thing -- let the
> well-formed
> XSLT be checked for XSLT syntax errors by whatever XSLT processor you're
> using, of course, but otherwise don't think about validation in a
> core-XML
> sense. (Just my opinion, others undoubtedly feel differently.)

Thanks for the info, I'll follow your advice.

Mattias


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