Re: [xsl] DOCTYPE causes appearance of unwanted attributes

[Paul DuBois <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A while back I sent the following message to this list, in which I asked
how to prevent xsltproc from adding default element attributes when
processing an input document that contains a DOCTYPE declaration.  A
few people suggested ways to suppress these, but I have now realized
that there is a very simple way to keep the attributes from appearing:

Use "xsltproc --novalid" rather than just "xsltproc".  Then xsltproc
won't look at the DTD.

I'm embarrassed to say that I didn't think of this before, but perhaps
by mentioning it here, it will help someone else who has the same problem.


At 11:39 -0500 4/6/04, Paul DuBois wrote:
> I'm finding that including a DOCTYPE declaration in my source XML
> document causes the output to contain unwanted attributes.
>
> Stylesheet identity.xsl is a fairly standard identity transform:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
>
> <xsl:template match="/ | node() | @* | comment() | processing-instruction()">
>   <xsl:copy>
>     <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
>     <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>
>   </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
>
> Input file 1:
>
> <?xml version='1.0'?>
> <chapter>
> <indexterm><primary>abc</primary></indexterm>
> <literal>abc</literal>
> </chapter>
>
> Result of "xsltproc identity.xsl junk1" is:
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <chapter>
> <indexterm><primary>abc</primary></indexterm>
> <literal>abc</literal>
> </chapter>
>
> Input file 2 (same but with DOCTYPE):
>
> <?xml version='1.0'?>
> <!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC '-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN'
> 		  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd"; >
>
> <chapter>
> <indexterm><primary>abc</primary></indexterm>
> <literal>abc</literal>
> </chapter>
>
> Result of "xsltproc identity.xsl junk2" is:
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <chapter>
> <indexterm significance="normal"><primary>abc</primary></indexterm>
> <literal moreinfo="none">abc</literal>
> </chapter>
>
> The significance and moreinfo attributes have been added.
>
> 1) Why is this?
> 2) Can I suppress it? :-)