<![CDATA[
  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
  <! DOCTYPE html
     PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional //EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
  ]]>

Why are you trying to add this using CDATA?

It doesn't work as this is text children of the xsl:stylesheet element
and you are only allowed elements there.

Just specify the system and public IDs in <xsl:output>


> This fails, as the parser converts < in the cdata section to &lt;.  How do I
> go about outputting the correct xhtml header from a stylesheet??

<xsl:output
  doctype-system="..."
  doctype-public="..."
/>

David

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