user error! [Was: problems with Xalan & Xerces]

[matthew denner <ma...@evtechnology.com>]

matthew denner wrote:
> 
> matthew denner wrote:
> >
> > i believe the inclusion of the DTD in the HTML file is causing a problem and
> > removing this (from the real world files) is impossible as you get parser
> > errors when the XHTML contains " " (missing referenced entities).
> 
> further info:
> 
> it looks like the stuff that appears in the Xalan output are comments from
> the DTD, not the DTD itself.  also, the <!DOCTYPE...> element at the top of
> the documents is removed which may explain why the XSL doesn't work (straw
> clutching there i think!).

in trying to track down the "bug" i turned on ResultTreeHandler.DEBUG in the
source and found that the namespace for the <a> needs specifying on the
match ... i did warn you that i was new to all this XSL!  now everything
works, apologies to everyone.

side note though: would it not be better to separate out the ContentHandler
and DTDHandler stuff?  i would assume that comments in the DTD are not
relevent to the XSL and therefore should not pass through.  by separating
(or hacking like i did!) you could remove the comments from the DTD in the
final output.

once again, sorry for assuming this was a bug and not user error, next time
i'll be a little more careful!

Cheers,
Matt

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