Hi all,
We are using Xalan 2.1.0 with SAX input from our SGML/XML editor. So far,
it's working great, but I found a possible limitation today that worries me.
In our editor we can apply links and link targets to an XML Docbook
document, as <link> tags with href attributes and anchor tags with id
attributes, respectively. We are processing the document using Norm
Walsh's XSLDocbook10 (version 1.4) stylesheet. Norm uses the id() function
to locate the target node for a link.
The problem is that the id() function relies on an ID attribute designated
in the DTD. Since we are using SAX input, Xalan does not have the DTD, and
therefore does not have a designated ID attribute, so the id() function
always comes up with no matches.
Is there any other way to designate the ID attribute to Xalan aside from
the DTD?
Failing that, is there a way to give Xalan the DTD for the document when
the input is through SAX? I looked at the LexicalHandler interface, and
there is mention of sending the "external DTD subset" in a startEntity()
event using the special name "[dtd]", but it isn't clear to me if this
would do what I need or how to do it.
Any help would be appreciated.
Paul Winder
Arbortext
