Re: [xsl] MSXML DOCTYPE error

["Luke Stedman" <luke.stedman@xxxxxxxxx>]

That was my thought when I first looked at the system...

There are a number of options that would provide cross platform
support and more access to the parser/transformation engine, for
example I am unable to access the message buffer of the MSXML parser.

Cheers
Luke

2008/6/24 bryan rasmussen <rasmussen.bryan@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Actually I was just wondering what was the reason for using Python's
> Win32 libraries to allow you to invoke MSXML as opposed to other xsl-t
> implementations for python that would be cross-platform?
>
> Cheers,
> Bryan Rasmussen
>
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Luke Stedman <luke.stedman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Thanks for all the comments guys.
>>
>> When Andrew pointed out the simpler solution I decided to do it the
>> xsl/include way instead.
>>
>> It is a lot easier than using the DTD's.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Luke
>>
>> 2008/6/24 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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