> I am doing the filtering before sending it to transformation, 
> but I thought there is something we can do to tell the 
> transformer NOT to consider the dtd reference.

You missed the point of his reply. The XSLT transformer does not look at
the DTD reference, it is used only by the XML parser. This doesn't solve
your problem, but you won't solve it unless you first understand it!

Michael Kay


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