RE: DTD for input XML to XSLT

> Do I need to specify the DTD for the XML document in input to the XSLT
> processor?
> Does the XSLT processor  validate the correctness of the inbound XML
> document?

An XSLT processor accepts as input a tree, which will generally be produced
as the output of an XML parser. There is no requirement that the tree
represents a valid document, only that it is well-formed. There is therefore
no need for a DTD. Whether validation takes place depends on the parser you
are using and on the way it is configured.

Mike Kay
Software AG


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