Yeah, I was afraid that was the only way to do it :P  Thanks --

Michele

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Kay mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2019 4:35 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  Adding entity declarations to DOCTYPE in xml output

If you're able to use Saxon, consider using the saxon:doctype extension
instruction.

It can't be done with any version of standard XSLT, except by generating the
DTD "by hand" using disable-output-escaping.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

> On 25 Feb 2019, at 21:15, Michele R Combs mrrothen@xxxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello collective wisdom -
>
> I would like to have several entity declarations in my output XML.  Here's
what I currently have in my XSL:
>
> <xsl:output
>   method="xml"
>   indent="yes"
>   encoding="utf-8"
>   exclude-result-prefixes="ns"
>   omit-xml-declaration="yes"
>   doctype-system="../ead_dtd/ead.dtd"
>   doctype-public="+//ISBN 1-931666-00-8//DTD ead.dtd (Encoded Archival
> Description (EAD) Version 2002)//EN"/>
>
>
> The output XML looks like this:
>
> <!DOCTYPE ead PUBLIC "+//ISBN 1-931666-00-8//DTD ead.dtd (Encoded
> Archival Description (EAD) Version 2002)//EN" "../ead_dtd/ead.dtd">
>
>
> I would like it to look like this:
>
> <!DOCTYPE ead PUBLIC "+//ISBN 1-931666-00-8//DTD ead.dtd (Encoded
> Archival Description (EAD) Version 2002)//EN" "../ead_dtd/ead.dtd" [
> <!ENTITY sua_name SYSTEM "sua_name.txt"> <!ENTITY sua_address SYSTEM
> "sua_address.txt"> <!ENTITY subjindex SYSTEM "sua_index.txt"> <!ENTITY
> summitref SYSTEM "summit_ref.txt"> ]>
>
>
> Is this doable with XSL 1.1?
>
> Thanks --
>
> Michele
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