RE: AS-IS Output in XSL

[Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@xxxxxxx>]

> > Secondly, there is no clean way of outputting a document 
> type declaration from an XSLT stylesheet.
> 
> Er, what about the doctype-system or doctype-public attributes on
> xsl:output? 

Sorry, yes, I should have mentioned that.
> 
> > There is a dirty way of doing it, use
> > 
> > <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">
> > <[CDATA[<!DOCTYPE thing thing>]]>
> > </xsl:text>
> 
> This doesn't seem reasonable because then you are putting a text node
> before the document element...

disable-output-escaping is unreasonable by definition... It puts you into a
paradigm-shift where you forget about outputting trees and just think about
the final file you want to write.

Mike K


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