----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 12:06
PM
Subject: DTD Declaration in
sitemap/serializers
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
