Re: [xsl] MSXML DOCTYPE error

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Luke,

At 10:09 AM 6/24/2008, you wrote:
> Thanks Martin,
>
> The fix worked perfectly.

That's cool, but puzzling, since your syntax is unorthodox and 
shouldn't work in a conformant XML parser. It could be you are 
getting your XSLT to parse now, but how those external DTDs are being 
used would be a mystery.

> 2008/6/24 Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx>:
> > Luke Stedman wrote:
> >
> >> When the dtd's are defined in the XSL file:
> >>
> >> <!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [
> >>     <!ENTITY SYSTEM "./det_1.dtd">
> >>     <!ENTITY SYSTEM "./det_2.dtd">
> >> ]>

Here you have declared a DTD as an internal subset (the bracketed 
structure within your DOCTYPE declaration), which in turn declares 
two entities. But those entities are neither general nor parameter 
entities. Indeed they're not entities at all, since they don't have 
names, just system identifiers for files.

If you mean to include two DTDs as modules of the DTD in your 
internal subset, you need parameter entities, plus a parser that will 
support them.

What's more puzzling is why you want to do this. If you have global 
variable declarations in your XSL which you wish to factor out of the 
main stylesheet, xsl:include is easy enough without getting you into 
the intricacies of entity declaration and use. Is there any reason 
you can't simply use xsl:include?

Cheers,
Wendell



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