At 2004-04-19 11:50 +0530, Gangadhar Mylapuram wrote:
G. Ken Holman wrote:
DTD's are irrelevant in XSLT.
From my understanding dtd's provide definition for the xml file we are
going to write. Am I correct?
It provides a definition to the stylesheet writer, not to the XSLT
processor. XSLT can produce *any* XML vocabulary output that the
stylesheet writer actually creates, even a *wrong* one if the stylesheet
writer does not write their stylesheet correctly.
In this case, If I want cover all the definitions i should refer dtd's
while writing XSLT file.
Yes, *you* should refer to the DTD, not have XSLT refer to the DTD.
In this case how the dtd's are irrelevant in XSLT.
Because you cannot constrain XSLT by a DTD ... an XSLT processor does not
and cannot work with DTD files in any way for output (and only a very
limited way for input: defaulted attributes, unparsed entity declarations
and ID-typed attribute declarations).
I hope this clarifies my comments.
................... Ken
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