Re: no xmlns attribute in the xsl dtd?

[Chris Lilley <chris@xxxxxx>]

"Mark D. Anderson" wrote:
> [attribution lost wrote]:
> >furthermore, it is not clear how you would validate your document anyway
> >given that it includes names from the HTML 4.0 vocabulary as well as those
> >from the XSL vocabulary. The DTD in the spec only covers the latter which,
> >in effect, means it cannot be used to validate a stylesheet.
> 
> so much for my next question, which is what to do about all those other errors :).
> c:/software/sp-1.3/bin/nsgmls:html.xsl:10:5:E: element "html" undefined
> c:/software/sp-1.3/bin/nsgmls:html.xsl:10:11:E: element "head" undefined
> c:/software/sp-1.3/bin/nsgmls:html.xsl:10:18:E: element "title" undefined
> 
> so is there a solution here?

You could, if you were brave, write a merged DTD which included the XSL
DTD and the XHTML DTD and treated the namespace prefixes opaquely. Then,
as long as you don't use namespace defaulting and always use the same
namespace prefix, you can validate using traditional tools.

--
Chris



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