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Re: Where can I find the XSLT DTD?
At 07:16 PM 2/3/2000 +0100, Yann Desnoues wrote:
>I'll never be able to validate ANY of my XSL doc?
No... unless you do as Lars just suggested, and create an
application-specific DTD for use in validating your stylesheet. This can be
quite complicated; if XHTML were the result tree's vocabulary, for
instance, you'd have to allow for the appearance of just about any XHTML
element as a child of just about any XSLT element.
As someone else said, almost no one bothers checking XSLT stylesheets for
validity -- well-formedness is all right, as long as the XSLT processor
(XT, SAXON, whatever) detects syntax and other XSLT-specific errors.
Validity in the XML sense is not critical for XSLT. Actually, I'd guess
that absolutely no one bothers to check validity of stylesheets; the
"almost" is just a hedge. :)
>But may the good question is what to use as an XSL editor?
I use a general-purpose text editor and suspect that may be the norm for
others here (can't speak for them of course). I understand that
Excelon's/ObjectDesign's commercial package Stylus includes a W3C-compliant
XSL editior, but I haven't used it myself. Information is at:
http://www.odi.com/products/excelon_stylus.html
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