Re: [xsl] where does one stick the doctype?

Subject: Re: [xsl] where does one stick the doctype?
From: David N Bertoni/Cambridge/IBM <david_n_bertoni@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 11:32:46 -0800



> "Kovach, Dave" wrote:
> >
> > so I am trying to place a DOCTYPE declaration in my XSLT,
> > but can't get it to render correctly - get errors like:
> >
>
> This is what I resorted to:
>
> <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><![CDATA[<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC
> "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";>]]>
> </xsl:text>
>
> There may be a better way, but this works...

It works if your processor supports disable-output-escaping, but not all
do.  Why not use the facility built into the language?

<xsl:output
   doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
   doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd
"/>

Dave


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