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<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"
><[CDATA[<!DOCTYPE Numbers SYSTEM "<xsl:value-of
select="$doctype"/>">]]></xsl:text>

at the top of your root template, I think will
do the job.
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Steve Muench, Consulting Product Manager & XML Evangelist
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----- Original Message -----
From: Roger L. Costello <costello@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <xml-dev@xxxxxxxx>; Garriss Jr.,James P. <jgarriss@xxxxxxxxx>;
Costello,Roger L. <costello@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 1999 1:00 PM
Subject: XSLT Question: Inserting a DOCTYPE decl


| Hi Folks,
|
| I have a situation where I have many XML documents that do not contain a
| DOCTYPE declaration, and would like to write a stylesheet that inserts a
| declaration within the documents.  The interesting aspect of this
| problem is that each XML document contains within it an element which
| gives the name of the DTD file.  So, the declaration should use the
| value of that element as the name for the DTD file.
|
| For example, here's a sample XML document into which I need to insert a
| DOCTYPE declaration:
|
| <?xml version="1.0"?>
| <Numbers>
|         <DoctypeFile>Number.dtd</DoctypeFile>
|         <Number>27</Number>
|         <Number>34</Number>
|         <Number>18</Number>
|         <Number>67</Number>
|         <Number>99</Number>
|         <Number>16</Number>
| </Numbers>
|
| Note the DoctypeFile element, which indicates the name of the DTD file.
|
| The stylesheet should insert the declaration, thus resulting in an XML
| document as such:
|
| <?xml version="1.0"?>
| <!DOCTYPE Numbers SYSTEM "Number.dtd">
| <Numbers>
|         <DoctypeFile>Number.dtd</DoctypeFile>
|         <Number>27</Number>
|         <Number>34</Number>
|         <Number>18</Number>
|         <Number>67</Number>
|         <Number>99</Number>
|         <Number>16</Number>
| </Numbers>
|
| Here's the stylesheet that I wrote to do this task:
|
| <?xml version="1.0"?>
| <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
|                 version="1.0">
|
|     <xsl:variable name="doctype">
|         <xsl:value-of select="//DoctypeFile"/>
|     </xsl:variable>
|
|     <xsl:output method="xml" doctype-system="string($doctype)"/>
|
|     <xsl:template match="*|@*|comment()|
|                          processing-instruction()|text()">
|         <xsl:copy>
|             <xsl:apply-templates select="*|@*|comment()|
|                                      processing-instruction()|text()"/>
|         </xsl:copy>
|     </xsl:template>
|
| </xsl:stylesheet>
|
| A pretty simple stylesheet - create a variable which gets the value of
| the DoctyleFile element, and instruct the xsl:output element to output a
| DOCTYPE declaration, using the value of the variable as the name of the
| DTD file, and then do a copy operation on the input XML document.
|
| Here is the XML file that I get when this example is run through XT
| (Lotus XSL gives the same results):
|
| <?xml version="1.0"?>
| <!DOCTYPE Numbers SYSTEM "string($doctype)">
| <Numbers>
|         <DoctypeFile>Number.dtd</DoctypeFile>
|         <Number>27</Number>
|         <Number>34</Number>
|         <Number>18</Number>
|         <Number>67</Number>
|         <Number>99</Number>
|         <Number>16</Number>
| </Numbers>
|
| Note that the XSL processor did not evaluate the expression that I used
| in the xsl:output's doctype-system attribute.  Instead, it used the
| expression literally.
|
| Thus, here are my questions:
|
| (1)  Is this a bug in XT and Lotus XSL?
| (2)  I suspect it isn't a bug, in which case can someone think of
| another way to solve this problem?
|
| /Roger
|
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