FW: [jdom-interest] Doctype entity declaration

[Richard Cook]

I don't know about implementation or if it has any impact, but xslt allows
you to specify some doctype info for the output stage. Can there be >1
xsl:output eg via xsl:import/include?

<xsl:output doctype-public="..." doctype-system="...">

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jdom-interest-admin at jdom.org
> [mailto:jdom-interest-admin at jdom.org]On Behalf Of bob mcwhirter
> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 4:42 AM
> To: Jason Hunter
> Cc: Harry Evans; jdom-interest at jdom.org
> Subject: Re: FW: [jdom-interest] Doctype entity declaration
>
>
>
> Hmmm...
>
> As far as I know, xpath doesn't provide any access to the doctype,
> because, as you said, it's not really a node, but rather meta-information
> about the document; and xpath is only about addressing portions of a
> document.
>
> Not having a parent shouldn't cause a problem.  Lemme double-check
> the spec tomorrow, but I think it doesn't relate at all to xpath
> functionality.
>
> 	-bob
>
>
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Jason Hunter wrote:
>
> > Harry Evans wrote:
> >
> > > While I was designing for Doctype entity declarations, I noticed that
> > > DocType, unlike Element, Entity, Comment, etc. does not have
> a reference to
> > > the containing Document.  Is this by design, or oversight?
> It seems to me
> > > that it would be good to find the enclosing document for a doctype
> > > declaration.  Any thoughts on this?
> >
> > It's due to the fact that DocType doesn't really seem like a leaf on the
> > document tree.  It's more like an attribute of the document.  That said,
> > a DocType instance should probably either be immutable or should have a
> > parent; thus ensuring you can't have the same DocType on two docs and
> > have a change to one affect the other.
> >
> > We should determine if XPath would be helped by DocType knowing its
> > parent.  If so, I'd propose adding the parent.  If not, then I'd propose
> > making it immutable.  Bob, do you want to weigh in?
> >
> > -jh-
> >
>
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