Re: parsed entites

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Subject: Re: parsed entites
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 16:46:14 -0500

At 99/11/17 13:20 -0800, Alexandra Morgan wrote:

As I understand it, entities have to be declared inside the DOCTYPE. But my stylesheets don't have a DTD. Can I have a DOCTYPE without having a DTD?

It isn't a problem to have a DOCTYPE without a DTD.

When I work with the text output method, I usually create a &nl; entity to emit line feeds in my output as follows:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [
<!ENTITY nl "&#xd;&#xa;">
]>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                version="1.0">

<xsl:output method="text"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:text>&nl;</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

You can also have partial DTDs ... a common XSLT processing requirement for well-formed documents is to recognize which attribute of elements is of type ID (because there is nothing special conferred on attributes that are *named* ID).

To communicate this information regarding the source file to the stylesheet, the following can be added to the source:

<!DOCTYPE custsummary [
<!ATTLIST cust custNbr ID #REQUIRED>
]>
<custsummary>
......

I hope this helps.

............ Ken


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parsed entites Alexandra Morgan - Wed, 17 Nov 1999 13:20:39 -0800 G. Ken Holman - Wed, 17 Nov 1999 16:46:14 -0500 <= Richard Lander - Wed, 17 Nov 1999 16:47:57 -0500 <Possible follow-ups> Alexandra Morgan - Thu, 18 Nov 1999 13:48:04 -0800 Jelks Cabaniss - Thu, 18 Nov 1999 18:22:16 -0500 Mark Hayes - Thu, 18 Nov 1999 15:04:59 -0800

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