XML to HTML for various DTD's

priyan24 · November 28th, 2009, 12:30 AM

HI all,

I need to convert some different XML files(i.e various DTD's) to HTML. Is there any option in XSLT to run according to the selection of DTD. Please give your valuable suggestions.

Regards
Bala

Martin Honnen · November 28th, 2009, 07:12 AM

I am not sure I understand what you have in mind exactly but XSLT processing is not based on DTDs. You write match patterns selecting nodes by their type (e.g. element node or attribute node) and by their node name. The XSLT/XPath data model does not include any DTD related nodes.
Writing a single stylesheet to process different types of XML documents would be possible by including templates matching the different elements, that way the XSLT processor would then simply choose a different template based on matching against the different elements encountered in the input XML.