RE: http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform has no DTD anymore

> 
> Not sure if this is the right list but I found out that the 
> url that specified the DTD for XSLT:
> http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform is not longer hosted  
> there. Now there is hosted an xml referring to a schema to be 
> comming someday.

I don't think there ever has been a DTD at this address. It's a namespace
URI, and in principle namespace URIs don't have to point to anything, though
W3C has adopted a convention of putting something at the location to tell
you where to find a definition of the namespace, in the form of a schema or
otherwise.

Further, it's not really possible to do any very useful validation of an
XSLT stylesheet with a DTD or schema. You can do a simple amount of
structural checking, but the way to validate a stylesheet is to present it
to an XSLT processor.

Michael Kay
(personal response)

Received on Wednesday, 3 May 2006 21:32:09 UTC