Re: [xsl] Preserving inline DTD

[Martin Holmes <mholmes@xxxxxxx>]

On 14-01-27 03:33 PM, David Carlisle wrote:
> On 27/01/2014 23:26, Piotr Fusik wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > How do I make xsltproc preserve the DTD that is in the input XML ?
>
> Unless it has a non-standard extension (which I don't recall is the
> case) then this is not possible. Standard XSLT can not do this as the
> DTD is expanded out by the XML parser and not reported to XSLT which
> just sees a tree of element text and attribute nodes.

Couldn't the XSLT re-read the source document as text, using the 
document() function, and recover the DTD section with string manipulation?

Cheers,
Martin

> David