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At 2:48 PM +0000 11/2/02, Anthony B. Coates wrote: >If this seems pedantic, let me give a concrete example. XSLT engines do not >require XSLT scripts to be valid with respect to a DTD. However, character >entities are convenient to use in XSLT scripts, particularly when generating >HTML. If I stick a DOCTYPE like the above in my XSLT script, the standard >command-line settings will mean that validation fails, and the transformation >won't happen. Now, the erudite readers of "xml-dev" know how to work around >this, but the other 99% of the world doesn't know, and doesn't want to have to >spend the time learning how. I can't really go for solutions based on a >slash-and-burn approach towards part-time XML/XSLT users. Can you be more concrete? Which XSLT engines have this problem? -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@m... | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | XML in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly, 2002) | | http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0596002920/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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