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RE: Role of schema in XSLT?
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- Subject: RE: [xsl] Role of schema in XSLT?
- From: "Michael Kay" <mhkay at iclway dot co dot uk>
- Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 07:48:32 -0000
- Reply-To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
Attributes given a default value in the DTD are included in the tree model
of the source document just as if they were included in each element start
tag.
Mike Kay
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com]On Behalf Of Dan Diebolt
> Sent: 22 March 2001 05:57
> To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: [xsl] Role of schema in XSLT?
>
>
> I have a quesiton regarding what role a schema (DTD or XML Schema)
> plays in using XSLT. Consider a DTD which defines an attribute as
> follows:
>
> <!ATTLIST ELEMENT ATTRIBUTE CDATA #FIXED "DEFAULT">
>
> How does this attribute participate in the XSLT transformation?
> Command line Saxon requires only the source XML document and XSL
> stylesheet:
>
> saxon source.xml style.xsl >output.html
>
> But an attribute as defined above may not occur within the source
> XML document. Rather, the attribute and its value are supplied by
> the DTD. Moreover, would an XML document which omitted the attribute
> be considered valid if everything else was in order?
>
> Regads,
>
> Dan
>
>
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