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Subject: Re: Accessing attribute from DTD From: Norman Walsh <ndw@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 11:56:21 -0400 |
/ Amit Rekhi <amitr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> was heard to say: | I can access the attribute value of a target element in XSL using | | target-element.getAttribute("attribute-name"); | | In such a case, the attribute value for the target-element is picked from | the XML file. | | But what if the attribute value is specified in the DTD rather than the XML? | | What API do I use to access the attribute value (of a target element) | specified in the DTD?? There's no specific API for doing this, though there may be an API eventually that will let you look at the structure of the DTD for the source instance. If your XSL processor processes the DTD for the instance, default attribute values should be propagated onto the actual target-elements. (In other words, you shouldn't have to look at the DTD for attribute values, attributes occur on elements.) If your XSL processor ignores the DTD (and the element declarations in the internal subset, if there are any), then you're stuck. You'll have to normalize the instance before you apply style with XSL. This means that you may get dramatically different results with different XSL processors if you rely on attribute values defaulted in the DTD and some (but not all! ;-) XSL processors ignore the DTD. This is not a good thing. --norm XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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