(a) The W3C validator validates the XML file that you supply, it doesn't
invoke a transformation on it first.

(b) The doctype-system attribute in xsl:output causes a <!DOCTYPE>
declaration to be included in the serialized output of the transformation;
it does not cause any validation of the output to take place.

Run the transformation first, then supply the output to a process that does
validation.

Michael Kay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wong Chin Shin [mailto:publicbbs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 28 November 2004 19:35
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  trouble validating my XSL transformed code
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to validate the following URL:
> 
> http://www.nascencetech.com/recruitexpressmy/webadmin/AddPage.xml
> 
> against http://validator.w3.org but I'm getting confused.
> 
> I've set the DOCTYPE declaration in my XSL file
> (http://www.nascencetech.com/recruitexpressmy/xsl/webadmin.xsl) and I
> expected the validator to get the transformed code and 
> validate that. But
> the validator throws back a DOCTYPE unfound error at me and 
> referred to the
> XML file directly. Is it possible validate the results of the 
> transformation
> without manually copying the results into another file and 
> validating that
> file instead?
> 
> Thanks!
> Wong