Re: [xsl] MSXML DOCTYPE error

["Luke Stedman" <luke.stedman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for all the comments guys.

When Andrew pointed out the simpler solution I decided to do it the
xsl/include way instead.

It is a lot easier than using the DTD's.

Cheers
Luke

2008/6/24 Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Luke,
>
> At 10:09 AM 6/24/2008, you wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Martin,
>>
>> The fix worked perfectly.
>
> That's cool, but puzzling, since your syntax is unorthodox and shouldn't
> work in a conformant XML parser. It could be you are getting your XSLT to
> parse now, but how those external DTDs are being used would be a mystery.
>
>> 2008/6/24 Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx>:
>> > Luke Stedman wrote:
>> >
>> >> When the dtd's are defined in the XSL file:
>> >>
>> >> <!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [
>> >>     <!ENTITY SYSTEM "./det_1.dtd">
>> >>     <!ENTITY SYSTEM "./det_2.dtd">
>> >> ]>
>
> Here you have declared a DTD as an internal subset (the bracketed structure
> within your DOCTYPE declaration), which in turn declares two entities. But
> those entities are neither general nor parameter entities. Indeed they're
> not entities at all, since they don't have names, just system identifiers
> for files.
>
> If you mean to include two DTDs as modules of the DTD in your internal
> subset, you need parameter entities, plus a parser that will support them.
>
> What's more puzzling is why you want to do this. If you have global variable
> declarations in your XSL which you wish to factor out of the main
> stylesheet, xsl:include is easy enough without getting you into the
> intricacies of entity declaration and use. Is there any reason you can't
> simply use xsl:include?
>
> Cheers,
> Wendell
>
>
>
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