Jens --
Your English is fine and I understood you perfectly. Here are my
observations:
1. This is really a Xerces problem since the error message is coming
from Xerces and Xalan is just passing it through. You might have better
luck on the Xerces lists.
2. Without your DTDs, this is going to be impossible to reproduce to
give you a definitive answer.
3. I think the inner parentheses around each entity may be causing your
problems. I don't think the syntax allows for ((. Try removing all of
the inner parentheses around each entity and just leaving the two outer
ones (the open and the close).
HTH,
Gary
Jens Schaefers wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> i've got a problem concerning the use of parameter entities in a dtd of
> a document i want to process with xalan-j 2.1.0 (distribution version).
> the problem occured with xalan-j 2.0.1 (version distributed with fop
> 0.17), too.
>
> xalan error message:
>
> ----
>
> H:\test>java org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process -IN umsetzung.mdl -XSL
> html.xsl -OUT
> test.html
>
> XSLT Error (javax.xml.transform.TransformerException): A '(' character
> or an ele
> ment type is required in the declaration of element type
> "lsf:Properties".
>
> ----
>
> this is the dtd part where lsf:properties is defined:
>
> ----
>
> <!ELEMENT lsf:Properties ((%resource-properties;) |
> (%systemchannel-properties;) | (%model-properties;) |
> (%agency-properties;) | (%channel-properties;) | (%fragment-properties;)
> | (%edge-properties;))>
>
> ----
>
> the parameter entities are properly declared previously. each parameter
> entity contains a list of elements that are also properly declared.
>
> there is no problem when i validate my xml document against the dtd in
> xml spy nor is there a xerces error message either.
>
> it did work with xalan-j 2.0.1, though.
>
> the problem emerged when i modularized my dtd in several handy parts.
> the parts are composed in a kind of main dtd in which all dtd modules
> are imported as external entities. the order of the external entities in
> the main dtd is ok, otherwise i would get errors before xalan has a
> chance to do anything.
>
> what am i doing wrong?
>
> sorry for my poor english and thanks for your help in advance!
>
> jens
