Re: MSXML DOCTYPE error

Actually I was just wondering what was the reason for using Python's
Win32 libraries to allow you to invoke MSXML as opposed to other xsl-t
implementations for python that would be cross-platform?

Cheers,
Bryan Rasmussen

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Luke Stedman <luke.stedman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks for all the comments guys.
>
> When Andrew pointed out the simpler solution I decided to do it the
> xsl/include way instead.
>
> It is a lot easier than using the DTD's.
>
> Cheers
> Luke
>
> 2008/6/24 Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Luke,
>>
>> At 10:09 AM 6/24/2008, you wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks Martin,
>>>
>>> The fix worked perfectly.
>>
>> That's cool, but puzzling, since your syntax is unorthodox and shouldn't
>> work in a conformant XML parser. It could be you are getting your XSLT to
>> parse now, but how those external DTDs are being used would be a mystery.
>>
>>> 2008/6/24 Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx>:
>>> > Luke Stedman wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> When the dtd's are defined in the XSL file:
>>> >>
>>> >> <!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [
>>> >>     <!ENTITY SYSTEM "./det_1.dtd">
>>> >>     <!ENTITY SYSTEM "./det_2.dtd">
>>> >> ]>
>>
>> Here you have declared a DTD as an internal subset (the bracketed structure
>> within your DOCTYPE declaration), which in turn declares two entities. But
>> those entities are neither general nor parameter entities. Indeed they're
>> not entities at all, since they don't have names, just system identifiers
>> for files.
>>
>> If you mean to include two DTDs as modules of the DTD in your internal
>> subset, you need parameter entities, plus a parser that will support them.
>>
>> What's more puzzling is why you want to do this. If you have global variable
>> declarations in your XSL which you wish to factor out of the main
>> stylesheet, xsl:include is easy enough without getting you into the
>> intricacies of entity declaration and use. Is there any reason you can't
>> simply use xsl:include?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Wendell
>>
>>
>>
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