Re: Copy DocType

Kevin_Gutch@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Is it possible to include a DocType Declaration in an XSLT pass thru?

You don't have access to it because it is not in the XPath/XSLT tree
model, which doesn't have anything in it that wouldn't be reported by
a SAX parser (document type declaration being one of those things).

XSLT does have a provision for emitting a new declaration, though its
functionality is limited. You cannot specify an internal subset, and
you must hard-code the string used for the SYSTEM or PUBLIC identifier.

Also, you don't put it in the result tree; you just tell the processor
to add it to the output when it serializes the result tree in XML
syntax. See section 16.1 of the XSLT 1.0 rec.

<xsl:output method="xml" doctype-system="http://external/dtd/location" />

   - Mike
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