RE: [xsl] "expected markup declaration" error

["Michael Kay" <mhkay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> It hadn't occured to me that adding the DOCTYPE to define
> some character
> entity references would cause Saxon 6.2 (with built-in parser AElfred)
> to attempt to validate the document.

It isn't validating the document, but it is reading the DTD to identify and
expand entity references. During the search for an <?xml-stylesheet?>
processing instruction the document is parsed as far as the first element
start tag, and this will include the DOCTYPE declaration and therefore any
external DTD.

I think that it might be complaining about something inside the
character-entities external entity, which you haven't shown us.

As Jeni said, the message about <?xml-stylesheet?> is only telling you what
Saxon was doing at the time the error was found; the same error would have
been found by the XML parser eventually even without this pre-parse that is
done when you use the -a option.

Mike Kay

>
> For historical reasons, the content is already being validated against
> an SGML DTD (which contains exclusions and inclusions) before
> I attempt
> to transform it.  The data itself is well-formed XML.  I'm
> just looking
> at Saxon's documentation to see if I can tell it not to validate the
> document.  Hmm, at
> http://users.iclway.co.uk/mhkay/saxon/saxon6.2/conditions.html the
> AElfred parser is discussed:
>
>     Subsetting the code to include only the XML non-validating parser
>     and SAX driver, with appropriate changes to the setFeature() and
>     getFeature() methods.
>
> It seems that AElfred as part of Saxon is already
> non-validating.  There
> goes that theory out the window. :-(
>
> Dave
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeni Tennison" <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> > I think that Saxon displays the 'looking for stylesheet PI' message
> > while it's parsing the source XML - it parses it first into a node
> > tree and then looks for the PI within that - but I could be wrong.
> > Mike will obviously be able to confirm.
> >
> > That, and the message when the PI was removed, are what led me to
> > think it was a parse problem with the element start tag. Ahh...
> > perhaps it's that there's no !ELEMENT declaration for the root
> > element? Perhaps Dave's using a validating parser and it's
> complaining
> > because the DTD isn't complete? Dave, have you tried
> checking that the
> > XML document on its own is well-formed (and valid) XML?
>
>
>
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