Re: overriding <xsl:output> attributes

Michael Kay
Saxonica

hi-

i have a document A that imports document B.

in the<xsl:output> instruction, document B specifies doctype-public and doctype-system attributes. in document A, i want to disable output of doctypes, as we add the doctype declaration at another point in our production pipeline (ie, not in the xsl).

here's the relevant code for document A (importing):

<xsl:output
         method="html"
         indent="no"
         encoding="UTF-8"
         omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

and here's the relevant code for document B (imported):

<xsl:output
         method="html"
         indent="yes"
         encoding="UTF-8"
         doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
         doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"/>

simply omitting the doctype statements in the importing document does not disable the output of doctype statements. according to michael kay's book, a specified attribute within<xsl:output> takes precedence over an omitted attribute, regardless of which document it's in (importing or imported).

i have tried adding a name attribute to the importing statement, to try to create a new output definition, with no success. i have also tried using doctype-public="" and doctype-system="" in the importing document, but these simply output a doctype statement with a "" value.

is there a way to completely disable the output of these statements in the resulting html, given that i can't modify the imported document?

i'm using saxon 8.7, and xsl 2.0.

any insight into this issue would be much appreciated.


thanks-

lynn

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