Re: Is there an elegant way to copy a DOCTYPE declaration fr

Eric,

I think the problem is with the XPath Infoset which doesn't include the
prolog and hence doctypedecl. Even if a full fidelity parser (e.g. not SAX)
were to be used, XPath+XSLT would be clueless about what to do with the
information.

This is the XPath data model http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#data-model

What you are doing in your article and what I am doing in XSet is creating
an XML expansion of the XML data model which itself fits into the XPath data
model. XSet expands the entire XML property set into a set of elements and
attributes, including things like PEs, GEs, internal and external subsets,
whitespace, delimiters etc, etc, etc etc.

A good reason this is useful is for this exact case: to allow XPath, and
hence XSLT to operate on information which is otherwise lost.

see: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200008/msg00239.html



Jonathan Borden
The Open Healthcare Group
http://www.openhealth.org



> Joe,
>
> Joe Ward wrote:
> >
> > So far, the only way I've found to keep the doctype declaration intact
after
> > a "pass-through" transformation is to hide a copy of the declaration in
a
> > comment via a pre-processor and then extract it.
> >
> > Is there a more elegant way? (Frankly, if I have to write a preprocess
> > script, I might as well skip XSLT altogether.)
>
> I have posted the description of a possible solution to this issue:
> http://www.xml.com/pub/2000/08/09/xslt/xslt.html
>
> > Is this a major flaw in XSLT?
>
> Not really in XSLT, rather on the layered architecture below XSLT (the
> information is lost by the SAX interface).
>
> Eric
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Joe
> >
> > (Still wearing XSL training wheels...)
> >
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>
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