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Re: Is there an elegant way to copy a DOCTYPE declaration from one doc to another?
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- Subject: Re: Is there an elegant way to copy a DOCTYPE declaration from one doc to another?
- From: Eric van der Vlist <vdv at dyomedea dot com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 22:13:50 +0200
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Joe,
Joe Ward wrote:
>
> So far, the only way I've found to keep the doctype declaration intact after
> a "pass-through" transformation is to hide a copy of the declaration in a
> comment via a pre-processor and then extract it.
>
> Is there a more elegant way? (Frankly, if I have to write a preprocess
> script, I might as well skip XSLT altogether.)
I have posted the description of a possible solution to this issue:
http://www.xml.com/pub/2000/08/09/xslt/xslt.html
> Is this a major flaw in XSLT?
Not really in XSLT, rather on the layered architecture below XSLT (the
information is lost by the SAX interface).
Eric
>
> Thanks,
> Joe
>
> (Still wearing XSL training wheels...)
>
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