At 05:34 PM 6/19/01 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Xalan just looks at the incoming attributes and watches for those of type
>ID. A validating parser should set the right type if it has access to the
>DTD. If you are manufacturing input, just set the right type when you
>create the attribute. Xalan does very little -- nothing for you purposes,
>with the DTDHandler.
How about the attributeDecl() method in the DeclHandler interface, which is
implemented by
SourceTreeHandler--would that do what I need?
If so, what would I specify for the first argument, ename? Would I have to
call the function for each
element for which I wanted the attribute recognized as an ID attribute, or
is there a wildcard value?
Paul
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>Hi all,
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>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.
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>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
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>to locate the target node for a link.
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>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
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>therefore does not have a designated ID attribute, so the id() function
>always comes up with no matches.
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>Is there any other way to designate the ID attribute to Xalan aside from
>the DTD?
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>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.
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>Any help would be appreciated.
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>Paul Winder
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