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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: DTD validation question for docbook under redhat
On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Bob Stayton wrote: > On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 02:57:48PM +0100, Tim Waugh wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 09:18:07AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > > no problem, xsltproc generated the HTML just fine, so i'm > > > curious, what's the algorithm for locating the proper DTD when > > > xslsproc goes to work? as i read it, that program uses the > > > contents of the env var SGML_CATALOG_FILES, but that still > > > doesn't explain why there was no complaint about a non-existent > > > DTD file. > > > > I don't *think* that xsltproc validates, but I may be wrong. There is > > xmllint for validation though. > > That's correct, xsltproc does not validate. It only uses > the DOCTYPE to resolve any entities it finds in the content. > I don't think Saxon validates either. > > XSLT processors are designed to handle well-formed documents > in addition to valid documents. So it really isn't their > job to determine if a document is valid. ah, my misunderstanding. so i should be looking at xmllint, you say? thanks. rday
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