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RE: xsl -- Inserting a DOCTYPE if needed

• To: "'Caro, Samuel'" <Samuel.Caro@U...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: xsl -- Inserting a DOCTYPE if needed
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 09:48:03 -0000
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• Reply-to: <michael.h.kay@n...>

> How would write a XSL file that inserts the DOCTYPE only and
> only if not present?
>

You can't. The DOCTYPE declaration is not part of the InfoSet or the XPath
data model, therefore your stylesheet can't determine whether or not the
original document had a DOCTYPE or not.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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