Re: feature request

[David Carlisle <davidc at nag dot co dot uk>]

> xsl:output permits me to specify the doctype-public and
> doctype-system, but it doesn't allow me to specify
> any internal dtd additions (I'm particularly thinking of 
> entity additions).
> 
> Because of this I need to kludge it with 
> <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">
> to get the entity in
> 

But your output won't contain any entity references unless you have
even more such kludges, so removing this one kludge wouldn't help much
would it?

If you need a local subset it is probably more convenient in xsl to
instead have a top level dtd file that you specify in doctype-system
that has anyother local modifications and then brings in in your
`public' DTD as an external entity.

If you don't mind using an extension element you can write out this file
using xt:output or similiar, if its contents depend on the source
document. 

So rather than

<!DOCTYPE xxx SYSTEM "a.dtd" [
<!ELEMENT new ....>
]>
<xxx>

do

<!DOCTYPE xxx SYSTEM "new-a.dtd">
<xxx>

and write out new-a.dtd to look like
<!ELEMENT new ....>
...
<!ENTITY % original-a SYSTEM "a.dtd">
%original-a;

David


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