Thanks. LSSerializer did the job. I don't like doctypes, but I'm stuck with some.
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Michael Glavassevich <mrgla...@ca.ibm.com>wrote: > Benson, > > I expect the response that you would get from the Xalan folks is that the > DOCTYPE isn't part of the data model [1][2] so doesn't appear in the result > of the transform. I understand that the identity transformer is supposed to > behave like following stylesheet snippet: > > <xsl:template match="@*|node()"> > <xsl:copy> > <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/> > </xsl:copy> > </xsl:template> > > and that only includes nodes in the XPath data model. I think some folks > believe the JAXP equivalent should copy everything, not just what's > representable in the data model, but apparently Xalan and perhaps other XSLT > processors do not do that. > > You could try another API like the LSSerializer [3] which will serialize > the full content of the DOM. > > Thanks. > > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xslt-19991116#data-model > [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#data-model > [3] > http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/javadocs/api/org/w3c/dom/ls/LSSerializer.html > > Michael Glavassevich > XML Parser Development > IBM Toronto Lab > E-mail: mrgla...@ca.ibm.com > E-mail: mrgla...@apache.org > > Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote on 10/30/2009 10:59:27 AM: > > > > I'm not sure if I should be consulting Xerces, Xalan, or a beer. > > > > I've got a DOM tree with a doctype on it. > > > > I want to serialize it. > > > > I use the usual TraX call. No doctype lands in the output. I'm very > > carefully using Xerces for the DOM and Xalan for TraX. > > > > Am I just in the land of RTfM? >
