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

sure, thanks again!

--- Michael Kay <mhk@mhk.me.uk> wrote:

> 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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