RE: [xsl] Schema for Validating XSLT-Stylesheets

[Taras Tielkes <taras@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Here's another one:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xmlschema-dev/2000Apr/0011.html

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeni Tennison [mailto:jeni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 7:30 PM
> To: Sebastian Thoene
> Cc: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [xsl] Schema for Validating XSLT-Stylesheets
> 
> 
> Hi Sebastian,
> 
> > Is there any XML-Schema conforming with the latest XML-Schema
> > Specification (ideally 2001), we could use to validate the
> > stylesheet? Or does anybody know another method to validate a
> > stylesheet with Xerces (or Xalan)?
> 
> Searching for "XML Schema for XSLT" on Google produced the following
> article, which contains a link to an XML Schema for XSLT
> 
>   http://www.xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1143
> 
> Usually running an XSLT stylesheet against any document (even itself)
> using an XSLT processor (e.g. Xalan) will tell you if anything's
> syntactically wrong with the stylesheet, which is all that a schema
> will really be able to tell you anyway.
>   
> > Our special problem is that we want to validate an XML-Document, in
> > which we have embedded some XSL-Tags. The parser cannot validate the
> > whole document, if it cannot validate the XSL-part, can it?
> 
> This is really a schema question, but often it can. What you need to
> do is to add an xs:import element to the schema to reference a
> (non-existant) XSLT schema:
> 
> <xs:import namespace="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; />
> 
> Then, whenever there's somewhere that XSLT elements might go, you can
> use the xs:any element to represent XSLT elements. Tell the schema
> validator not to bother validating them by adding a processContents
> attribute with a value of 'skip':
> 
>   <xs:any namespace="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
>           maxOccurs="unbounded"
>           processContents="skip" />
> 
> or if there are specific XSLT elements that need to be incorporated,
> I *think* you can include references to them and because you haven't
> actually provided a schema for them, it will skip over them:
> 
>   <xs:element ref="xsl:value-of" />
> 
> But you'd be better off asking about this on xmlschema-dev@xxxxxxx
> 
> I hope that helps,
> 
> Jeni
> 
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> Jeni Tennison
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> 
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