DTD Declarations in the sitemap/serializers

Wed, 04 Dec 2002 20:09:22 -0800

Title: Blank
 

I'm sure there is a sensible explanation for this but I can't find it. When I change:

<map:serializer name="html" mime-type="text/html" src=""/> 

to

<map:serializer name="html" mime-type="text/html" src="">
  <doctype-public>-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN</doctype-public>
  <doctype-system>http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd</doctype-system>
  <encoding>ISO-8859-1</encoding>
</map:serializer>

The resulting html output has the correct dtd declaration at the top of the file:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

Now when I try this with the xml serializer that doesn't happen e.g.

<map:serializer mime-type="text/xml" name="xml" src="">
  <doctype-public>-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN</doctype-public>
  <doctype-system>http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd</doctype-system>
</map:serializer>

I would like to see this:

<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
               "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">

I noticed the same behaviour with the "svgxml" serializer which leads me to believe that this is a feature of the XMLSerializer. Is there a way to generate XML output with a DTD declaration in it?

Bye

Perry Molendijk

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