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

It sounds as if your problems are specific to the XMLSpy product and I
suggest you contact Altova for assistance.

Regards,

Michael Kay
(personal response) 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nestor Urquiza [mailto:nestoru@yahoo.com] 
> Sent: 03 May 2006 23:18
> To: Michael Kay; public-qt-comments@w3.org
> Subject: RE: http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform has no DTD anymore
> 
> Hello Michael,
> 
> I thought there was a DTD there because the xmlspy editor 
> stopped suddenly from validating  "Unable to locate a 
> reference to a supported schema kind(DTD, DCD,W3C 
> Schema,XML-Data, BizTalk) within this document instance" 
> because in fact it was trying to pull something from the url 
> and it found nothing useful there.
> 
> I remember for some reason this "validation" was working 
> before (maybe xmlspy was configured to pull the internal one 
> it comes with). So before the document was "validated" using:
> 
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> xmlns:ss="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet"
> exclude-result-prefixes="ss">
> 
> Now in order to be validated I have to use a local copy of a DTD:
> <!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet SYSTEM "C:\Program 
> Files\Altova\XMLSPY2004\Schemas\xsl\def_xslt.dtd">
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> xmlns:ss="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet"
> exclude-result-prefixes="ss">
> 
> You are right about the fact that the DTD allowed "simple 
> amount of structural checking" and of course I agree it is 
> not as big deal as I thought at the very beginning since as 
> you already said xalan or saxon in my case will take care of 
> it. In any case the "validation" I was looking for was not 
> validating any other namespace different from the xsl one.
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> Nestor
> 
> --- Michael Kay <mhk@mhk.me.uk> wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > > 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)
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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Received on Wednesday, 3 May 2006 22:30:36 UTC