Re: Entities within my stylesheet.

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From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: 24 September 2002 17:28
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Subject: Re:  Entities within my stylesheet. 

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YA> ERROR: The element 'xsl:stylesheet' is used but not declared in the
YA> DTD/Schema.


DC> You are using a validating parser so it expects to see a full dtd
DC> defining every element and attribute in your stylesheet. 

I was a bit puzzled by this problem because it looked to me as if, as you
say, you needed to validate the whole document but all the places where
I saw this use of entities... were assuming that you could do it without 
including a DTD document or defining every element and I just couldn't...

   So thank you for putting some light on this issue. Now I'll be able
to sleep at night. I won't be able to use it though but at least I know why.
;-)

DC> Having said that you don't really need to declare these entities in teh
DC> stylesheet you can just use &#241; or type teh n-tilde character
DC> directly, either of which isn't really any harder than typing &ntilde;
DC> and avoids the need for the doctype declaration.

I know I don't need to, in fact I've been avoiding them for a few months
because I've never managed to make them work. ;-)
   It's just that the "code" looks much more readable IMHO if you
have something like &euro; &cr; or &ntilde; than having lots of different
&#xxx; numbers.


Thank you for the explanation. 
I was really starting to think my computer hates me. :-)


Regards,
Yago


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