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Re: is XT validating?
Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
>
> Part of the problem here is that a lot of people seem not to realize
> that an XML parser and an XSLT engine are two different things. XML
> parsers have no awareness of XSLT at all, while XSLT engines use XML
> parsers to read source documents and stylesheets.
I thought I might add my two bits to this thread.
In general, unless you've put integrated your output document DTD
into the XSLT DTD, using a validating parser isn't actually much use
because all of the XSLT processors that I know of use the same parser
to read in both the input documents and the XSLT documents. This
means that they may barf when reading XSLT, which usually has no
<!DOCTYPE> specified.
I generally validate my input documents before I start XSLT processing
(although this may not be possible in some contexts).
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Warren Hedley
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