XML DTD and XSLT issue

Martin Honnen · October 13th, 2011, 11:40 AM

Well that DOCTYPE neither has a system id pointing to an external DTD file nor an internal subset so it shouldn't change the parsing, unless your XML parser is using a catalog file to map the public identifier "-//ES//DTD full length article DTD version 4.3.1//EN" to a DTD file. You would need to look into the DTD file to find out whether it has similar namespace declarations as the one you posted earlier.
As an alternative you could write a stylesheet doing

Code:

<xsl:template match="/"><xsl:copy-of select="."/></xsl:template>

and inspect the result, it should show any namespace declarations. Then you need to take them into account, the same way as we showed you for the other file.

nehap8 · October 13th, 2011, 11:54 AM

I found the DTD for this on the web http://www.info.sciverse.com/UserFil...d43/art431.dtd

It doesn't look like it has the namespace issue as the previous one, but please correct me if I am wrong.

When I tried changing teh XSLT code with

<xsl:template match="/"><xsl:copy-of select="."/></xsl:template>

I still get an error "The document type declaration for root element type "art" must end with '>'"

I am using a java program to do the xslt conversion with transformer.transform() method for the conversion.

Thanks,
Neha

Martin Honnen · October 13th, 2011, 12:03 PM

The DTD seems to be an SGML DTD, not an XML DTD. So parsing with an XML parser fails with a parser error. I can't tell you a quick way how to fix that, you will need to find out why you get some SGML document and not an XML document by asking whoever provides you with the documents.

nehap8 · October 13th, 2011, 12:09 PM

Thank you for identifying the issue.I really appreciate your help...!!!!

Thanks again,
Neha