Re: is ID definition in DTD necessday for id()

This is because of the built-in templates. You can change the matcher to
'bla' and it will work too. The processing is not dependent on the templates
but on the node-order in the xml. For every node, which "has" a template,
this template will be used, otherwise the built-in template shows the
text-value of this node. You can change your stylesheet in another way too
for seeing the effect:

> <xsl:template match="id('x123')">
>     <i><xsl:value-of select="."/></i>
> </xsl:template>

So you should see "Hello World" in italic. If not, the built-in template is
used.

Joerg

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Renshaw" <renshaw_steve@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 7:11 PM
Subject: Re:  is ID definition in DTD necessday for id()


> I thought it was necessary initially, but the following xml and xsl
display
> "Hello World" in IE6 whether the doctype in included or not.
> Am I msising something ehre?
>
> doit.xml
> =========
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <!DOCTYPE root [
> <!ELEMENT root (item)>
> <!ELEMENT item (#PCDATA)>
> <!ATTLIST item id ID #REQUIRED>
> ]>
> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="doit.xsl"?>
> <root><item id="x123">Hello World</item></root>
>
> doit.xsl
> =========
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
>
> <xsl:template match="id('x123')">
>       <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>    </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> >From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
> >Reply-To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: Re:  is ID definition in DTD necessday for id()
> >Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 17:28:36 GMT
> >
> > > Quick questions -is it needed to use a dtd definition in the XML
> > > source
> >
> >yes, the attribute does not need to be called id the only thing that
> >matters is that it has been declared as type ID in a dtd.
> >
> > > - it isn't a function or is it?
> >It's a function, it takes a string valued argument and returns a node
> >set.
> >
> >David


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