• To: Michael Kay <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Subject: Re: xsl -- Inserting a DOCTYPE if needed
• From: Daniel Veillard <veillard@r...>
• Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 04:59:43 -0500
• Cc: "'Caro, Samuel'" <Samuel.Caro@U...>, xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <000901c1c9ab$01ae8650$835169d5@pcukmka>; from michael.h.kay@n... on Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 09:48:03AM -0000
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On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 09:48:03AM -0000, Michael Kay wrote:
> > 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.

  Actually the Infoset has that information:
  "The Document Type Declaration Information Item"
  http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-infoset/#infoitem.doctype

But this is missing from XPath and hence not available to XSLT processing
(at least for 1.0).

Daniel

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