Basic XSLT question

bonekrusher · October 28th, 2009, 01:21 PM

Hi, This is a very basic XSLT question. I've been using XSLT for years and never came across this. When I have a DTD that requires an attribute:

Code:

<!ENTITY % cluster.attrib 
  "cluster CDATA #IMPLIED
   permission (yes|no) 'yes'
   test (no | yes) 'no'"
>

And my input xml does not have these attributes, using the below template, will result with the attributes added to the elements of the resulting file.

Code:

    <xsl:template match="*">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
            <xsl:apply-templates/>
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>

My questions is (using Saxon), how do I turn this off?

Martin Honnen · October 28th, 2009, 01:25 PM

See the thread Copying without attributes with default values in dtd

bonekrusher · October 28th, 2009, 01:33 PM

Thanks. I believe with saxon, I can use

-dtd:(on|off|recover)

I'll need to comb through the docs for saxon in-bedded...

Phil

mhkay · October 28th, 2009, 05:50 PM

No, the -dtd option controls whether validation using the DTD is performed, and whether validation failures are fatal. It does not control the handling of defaulted attributes. That's done by the -expand option. (Though the two may interact, depending on which XML parser is used.)

bonekrusher · October 28th, 2009, 05:53 PM

Thanks Michael. Always a great help.