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XML source with DOCTYPE declaration


Hi there,

I am new to XSLT an hope somebody out there can help me with my problem:

I got some XML files I have to transform using XSLT. These XML files did
not contain a DOCTYPE declaration. I made the XSLT stylesheet as it was
requested and everything worked fine.
Then I added a DOCTYPE declaration to the XML file. As it is an XHTML
Basic document, I added:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML Basic 1.0//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-basic/xhtml-basic10.dtd";>

After inserting the DOCTYPE declaration, the XSLT transformation did not
work anymore: as result I receive an 'empty page'!  :(   After some
testing it seems my template for the first element (<html>) isn't being
called anymore !!  :(

My stylesheet basically looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/XML/XLink/0.9";>
	<xsl:output method="html" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>

	<xsl:template match="/">
		<xsl:apply-templates select="/html/body"/>
	</xsl:template>


	<xsl:template match="node()[@title='article']">
		<xsl:text>Article Found !!!</xsl:text>
		<xsl:apply-templates/>
	</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>


The XML file that should be transformed basically looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML Basic 1.0//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-basic/xhtml-basic10.dtd";>
<html>
	<head>
		<title/>
	</head>
	<body title="article">
		Some article text !!
	</body>
</html>
		

Before I forget: I am using Xalan J 2.0.0 on Windows 2000.

Does anybody can tell me why the transformation works well without a
DOCTYPE in the source XML file, and why the transformation fails when
the XML source file contains a DOCTYPE??
Are there any points I have to attention to when using DOCTYPE or
restrictions I am not aware of??

Any suggestions and tips are highly appreciated !!

Regards,
Zeljko

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