Subject: RE: XSL & DTD question From: Mike Brown <mbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 17:38:02 -0700 |
Paul Bell wrote: > I have a bunch of 'constant' entities defined in file > globals.dtd. I can pull these constants into my XML > files via something like: > <!DOCTYPE MYDOC SYSTEM "my.dtd" [ <!ENTITY % globals SYSTEM "globals.dtd"> %globals; ]> > > <MYDOC> > </MYDOC> > and so on. > But if I want to make the same set of constant entities > available to an XSL file (still XML, right?), I run into > a variety of problems, the first of which is that the > first element of my XSL file is likely to be > <xsl:stylesheet>. Althought the XML spec doesn't say so in so many words, the DTD is a logical structure that may be physically defined inside or among multiple entities. It is considered to be the combination of all of the DTD subsets that have been parsed for a given document. A non-validating parser such as what is typically used by an XSL processor will still look at the DTD to get entity declarations, so it is perfectly OK to "add" to an XSL document's DTD by putting declarations in the internal subset: <!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [ <!ENTITY % globals SYSTEM "globals.dtd"> %globals; ]> <xsl:stylesheet> ... </xsl:stylesheet> However, keep in mind that external entities such as the one declared in the example above are not required to be parsed by a non-validating parser. (someone may want to correct me on this.. it's a thorny issue) XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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