Re: accessing the DTD

Thanks for the replies.  Even though the DTD is not valid XML, it is being
processed during XSLT right?  My hope was I could get a reference to the valid
set of values for the attribute somehow.

I really don't know the DTD.  I'm trying to devise a way to interpret one
attribute that defines data type and produce output accordingly.  If the data
type was boolean, then perhaps I produce a checkbox.  If the data type were
enum, then maybe a combobox.  I can control what attribute holds the data type
as well as what attribute has the value, but I wanted to use the same latter
attribute to determine the range of values for certain data types.  Make sense?

I guess my solution will be along the lines of the following:

<!ATTLIST car color (red|yellow|blue) "red">
<!ATTLIST car color_enum CDATA "red|yellow|blue">

I can tokenize the color_enum ( I hope ), procesing it in conjunction with the
attribute that holds the value (color in this case).

At least I have something to do tonight!!
Larry






David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> on 09/01/99 04:44:47 PM

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   > My DTD has the valid values but I can't seem to get
   > access to the set.

   DTDs are not in the XPath data model. DTDs are not well-formed XML. I don't
   know if that's the reason why. You won't have access to the DTD. Perhaps you
   could refer to the DTD as replacement text for an entity, and then do some
   voodoo with XSLT to parse that string?


You could do, but in this case, if you know enough about the dtd to
write a stylesheet that formats all the allowed elements, you probably
know enough just to enter the list of allowed attribute values into
the stylesheet. Sorry about the low tech solution:-)

David



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