Hello all,

Could anyone please help me with the following

This is my "Input XML" file
===========================
<?xml:stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="a-1.xsl"?>

<!DOCTYPE article SYSTEM "entity.dtd">
<hdbkedit>
<article id="A0003971" access.no="V14A_D01_A01" status="draft" lang="en">
<article.info>
<page.no type="page">3</page.no>
<title>Bulk-Forming Processes</title>
<cite.as>Introduction to Bulk-Forming Processes, <italic>Bulk Forming</italic>, Vol 14A, <italic>Handbook</italic>International, 2005, p 3&ndash;10</cite.as>
<first.page>3</first.page>
<last.page>10</last.page>
<figct number="6">
<tabct number="1">

I need this as my "Output XML" file
===================================
<?xml:stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="a-1.xsl"?>
<!DOCTYPE article SYSTEM "entity.dtd">
<hdbkedit>
<article id="A0003971" access.no="V14A_D01_A01" status="draft" lang="en">
<article.info>
<page.no type="page">3</page.no>
<title>Bulk-Forming Processes</title>
<cite.as>Introduction to Bulk-Forming Processes, <italic>Bulk Forming</italic>, Vol 14A, <italic>Handbook</italic>International, 2005, p 3&ndash;10</cite.as>
<first.page>3</first.page>
<last.page>10</last.page>
<figct number="6"/>
<tabct number="1"/>


Further explanation to avoid confusion
======================================
I need to insert this line as my first line
<?xml:stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="a-1.xsl"?>

As my second line I need to delete the following line
<!DOCTYPE hdbkedit PUBLIC "-//ASM//DTD HANDBK.DTD 19960930 Ver 3.0//EN" "handbk.dtd">

and instead need to insert the following line
<!DOCTYPE article SYSTEM "entity.dtd">

I need to insert a backslash at the end of my tag
currently I have - <figct number="6">
But I need as - <figct number="6"/>


Thanks

You need to understand the transformation process better. The XML parser produces a tree of nodes; your XSLT stylesheet transforms this into another tree of nodes; and the serializer converts the result tree back into a text file containing markup.

Copying the processing instruction is straightforward: just use a template rule

<xsl:template match="processing-instruction()">
  <xsl:copy/>
</xsl:template>

(PLEASE use indentation in your posted code - it's an elementary courtesy to your readers!)

The

will be dropped automatically because it's a comment node and the default template rule for comments does nothing (it deletes them).

The <!DOCTYPE article> doesn't form part of the tree constructed by the XML parser, so your XSLT stylesheet can't process it. You can ask the serializer to generate a DOCTYPE declaration by using <xsl:output doctype-system="entity.dtd"/>, but there is no way of making this depend on what was in the input document.

<figct number="6"> is not well-formed XML, so it won't make it through the XML parser. XSLT stylesheets can only process well-formed XML. Even if it did make it through, you couldn't add a "/" to the markup (that's a forwards slash, by the way, not a backslash) because the serializer looks after markup issues, your XSLT code is only concerned with the structure of the result tree.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

Sorry I was wrong in specifying my Input and Output file. I think my explanation now will be more clear.

This is my Input "SGM" file
===========================
<!DOCTYPE hdbkedit PUBLIC "-//ASM//DTD HANDBK.DTD 19960930 Ver 3.0//EN" "handbk.dtd">
<hdbkedit>
<article id="A0003971" access.no="V14A_D01_A01" status="draft" lang="en">
<article.info>
<page.no type="page">3</page.no>
<title>Bulk-Forming Processes</title>
<cite.as>Introduction to Bulk-Forming Processes, <italic>Bulk Forming</italic>, Vol 14A, <italic>Handbook</italic>International, 2005, p 3&ndash;10</cite.as>
<first.page>3</first.page>
<last.page>10</last.page>
<figct number="6">
<tabct number="1">

I need this as my Output "XML" file
===================================
<?xml:stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="a-1.xsl"?>
<!DOCTYPE article SYSTEM "entity.dtd">
<hdbkedit>
<article id="A0003971" access.no="V14A_D01_A01" status="draft" lang="en">
<article.info>
<page.no type="page">3</page.no>
<title>Bulk-Forming Processes</title>
<cite.as>Introduction to Bulk-Forming Processes, <italic>Bulk Forming</italic>, Vol 14A, <italic>Handbook</italic>International, 2005, p 3&ndash;10</cite.as>
<first.page>3</first.page>
<last.page>10</last.page>
<figct number="6"/>
<tabct number="1"/>


Further explanation to avoid confusion
======================================
I need to insert this as my first line
<?xml:stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="a-1.xsl"?>

As my second line I need to delete the following line
<!DOCTYPE hdbkedit PUBLIC "-//ASM//DTD HANDBK.DTD 19960930 Ver 3.0//EN" "handbk.dtd">

and instead need to insert the below line
<!DOCTYPE article SYSTEM "entity.dtd">

For the empty element (<figct number="6">) I need to insert a forward slash to make it through the XML parser. So that my output will be

<figct number="6"/>


Thanks again