Re: validation during translation

I have an XML document coming out of a system which needs to be translated to text document. I have written XSL to do this, but when i apply
it to the xml it is failing because it is trying to validate against a dtd
and cannot find it.

I was wondering if there is an option to turn off such validation using XSL.

The Xalan CLI turns off XML validation by default already. However, turning off
validation may not be enough because even non-validating parsers have to read
the DTD (to some extent).
You are probably best off removing the DOCTYPE declaration completely with some
other tool, for example a stream editor.
Another possible option is to use a custom entity resolver which supplies an
empty DTD.