Re: [xsl] DOCTYPE causes appearance of unwanted attributes

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2004-04-06 11:39 -0500, Paul DuBois wrote:
> I'm finding that including a DOCTYPE declaration in my source XML
> document causes the output to contain unwanted attributes.
> ...
> Input file 2 (same but with DOCTYPE):
>
> <?xml version='1.0'?>
> <!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC '-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN'
>                   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd"; >
> ...
> The significance and moreinfo attributes have been added.
>
> 1) Why is this?

Defaulted attributes declared in a Document Type Definition are included in 
the XPath data model for an XML document.

> 2) Can I suppress it? :-)

You cannot distinguish between a defaulted attribute and a specified 
attribute (unspecified implied attributes are not included in the XPath 
data model).

If you don't want your DTD's supply of attributes, then don't reference the 
DTD.

I hope this helps.

..................... Ken

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