Re: parsed entites

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

At 99/11/17 13:20 -0800, Alexandra Morgan wrote:
> As I understand it, entities have to be declared inside the DOCTYPE. But 
> my stylesheets don't have a DTD. Can I have a DOCTYPE without having a DTD?

It isn't a problem to have a DOCTYPE without a DTD.

When I work with the text output method, I usually create a &nl; entity to 
emit line feeds in my output as follows:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [
<!ENTITY nl "&#xd;&#xa;">
]>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
                version="1.0">

<xsl:output method="text"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:text>&nl;</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>


You can also have partial DTDs ... a common XSLT processing requirement for 
well-formed documents is to recognize which attribute of elements is of 
type ID (because there is nothing special conferred on attributes that are 
*named* ID).

To communicate this information regarding the source file to the 
stylesheet, the following can be added to the source:

<!DOCTYPE custsummary [
<!ATTLIST cust custNbr ID #REQUIRED>
]>
<custsummary>
......

I hope this helps.

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


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