Thanks Ken,

I'll give this a try. I've never used catalogs, but knew that i would have to in certain situations.

I'll let you know how it goes!

thanks again,

Russ


On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 07:54:33PM -0400, G. Ken Holman wrote:
> At 2012-10-09 18:30 -0500, Russell Urquhart wrote:
>> Looking in the source svg file i DID find the following:
>>
>> <DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.0//EN"  
>> "http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-SVG-20010904/DTD/svg10.dtd">
>
> As I expected (except for the need for "!" after "<").
>
>> Am i going to have to strip out these lines from the source svg files, 
>> or is there some way to get the xslt to disregard them?
>
> You can leave the files untouched and get Saxon to disregard the W3C web 
> site by supplying Saxon with an XML catalogue that redirects the W3 URI 
> with a URI pointing to a copy of the DTD in your local system.
>
> I've mocked up a working example below based on slides I use in my XSLT 
> training.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> . . . . . . . Ken
>
> p.s. on my system the plain invocation *eventually* works without fail 
> ... there is just a long delay on the W3C web site for this file, it 
> isn't prohibited access; adding the catalogue makes it instantaneous
>
> T:\ftemp>wget http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-SVG-20010904/DTD/svg10.dtd
> --2012-10-09 19:38:12--  
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-SVG-20010904/DTD/svg10.dtd
> Resolving www.w3.org... 128.30.52.37
> Connecting to www.w3.org|128.30.52.37|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: 55654 (54K) [text/plain]
> Saving to: `svg10.dtd'
>
> 100%[======================================>] 55,654      --.-K/s   in 0.002s
>
> 2012-10-09 19:38:41 (29.6 MB/s) - `svg10.dtd' saved [55654/55654]
>
>
> T:\ftemp>type svgcat.xml
> <?xml version='1.0'?>
> <catalog xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:entity:xmlns:xml:catalog" prefer="public">
>
> <system systemId="http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-SVG-20010904/DTD/svg10.dtd"
>         uri="svg10.dtd"/>
>
> </catalog>
>
> T:\ftemp>type russ.xml
> <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.0//EN"  
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-SVG-20010904/DTD/svg10.dtd">
> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
> <path d="M145 20 v 374M210.16666666666669 20 v 374M275.33333333333337 20 
> v 374M340.50000000000006 20 v 374M405.66666666666674 20 v  
> 374M470.8333333333334 20 v 374M536.0000000000001 20 v 374" 
> class="gridlines"/>
> </svg>
>
> T:\ftemp>java -Dxml.catalog.files=svgcat.xml -jar saxon9he.jar  
> -x:com.sun.org.apache.xml.internal.resolver.tools.ResolvingXMLReader  
> -s:russ.xml -xsl:russ.xsl
> Warning: at xsl:stylesheet on line 3 column 45 of russ.xsl:
>   Running an XSLT 1 stylesheet with an XSLT 2 processor
> M145 20 v 374M210.16666666666669 20 v 374M275.33333333333337 20 v  
> 374M340.50000000000006 20 v 374M405.66666666666674 20 v  
> 374M470.8333333333334 20 v 374M536.0000000000001 20 v 374
> T:\ftemp>
>
>
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