Re: [xsl] XSL-FO Doctype Problem

["Karl Stubsjoen" <kstubs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Is that a kludge or a hack ;)  In either case, I'll give that a try!

On Jan 27, 2008 7:10 PM, G. Ken Holman <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 2008-01-27 12:16 -0700, Karl Stubsjoen wrote:
> >There is a doctype decleartion in the imported stylesheet.  I was
> >assuming that the child template importing the base template would be
> >able to "un-declare" the doctype setting from the imported stylesheet.
> >  Is thi not possible?  Based on my experience, it is not possible.
>
> Yes, you cannot un-declare the DOCTYPE, but you can override the
> DOCTYPE to have a system identifier that points to an empty zero-byte
> file.  An empty file is a well-formed external parameter entity.
>
> So, your importing stylesheet can have:
>
>  <xsl:output doctype-system="dummy.ent"/>
>
> And you can create a empty dummy.ent file in the same directory.
>
> The result is well-formed.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> . . . . . . . . . . . . Ken
>
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