Hi Colin,
> >>>>> "david" == david n bertoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> david> Hi Colin,
>
> david> Transforming to a DOM is not really part of the standard,
> david> so there are more than a few things that won't work. I
> david> don't know how we could implement this, since the DOM APIs
> david> don't support adding a DOCTYPE node. I think you would
>
> Hm. I am managing to do this by calling document.insertBefore (dtd,
> document.documentElement).
> This works witrh xerces-c (whether or not it is a legitimate think, I
> don't know).
It's a proprietary extension, although any C++ DOM can almost be considered
proprietary, I guess. You can still do this with the DOM Xalan-C
generates, right?
> david> have to do this when you create the document that you pass
> david> to the FormatterToXercesDOM instance. For more
> david> information, see DOMImplementation::createDocumentType()
> david> and DOMImplementation::createDocument()
>
> Well, since the doctype depends upon what is is the transform
> (i.e. coded on xsl:output), this is not possible (unless you
> specifically know which transform you are using, and I don't).
Yes, the typical chicken-and-egg problem. There's no good solution, from
the DOM perspective.
Dave
