Re: [xsl] two input xml files to one xml file

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

At 2004-04-19 11:50 +0530, Gangadhar Mylapuram wrote:
> G. Ken Holman wrote:
> > DTD's are irrelevant in XSLT.
>
> From my understanding dtd's provide definition for the xml file we are 
> going to write. Am I correct?

It provides a definition to the stylesheet writer, not to the XSLT 
processor.  XSLT can produce *any* XML vocabulary output that the 
stylesheet writer actually creates, even a *wrong* one if the stylesheet 
writer does not write their stylesheet correctly.

> In this case, If I want cover all the definitions i should refer dtd's 
> while writing XSLT file.

Yes, *you* should refer to the DTD, not have XSLT refer to the DTD.

> In this case how the dtd's are irrelevant in XSLT.

Because you cannot constrain XSLT by a DTD ... an XSLT processor does not 
and cannot work with DTD files in any way for output (and only a very 
limited way for input: defaulted attributes, unparsed entity declarations 
and ID-typed attribute declarations).

I hope this clarifies my comments.

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

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