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From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@ntlworld.com>
> It very rarely makes sense to do XML validation on an XSLT stylesheet. It's
> hard to define a DTD because the vocabulary is variable, and the XSLT
> processor will do far more thorough validation than the XML parser can do.
There is a RELAX NG schema for XSLT, which lets you validate the xslt:
parts of an XSLT stylesheet to a good extent. It is not as good as an
XSLT-specific validator, but pretty good.
It should be possible to make a transformation on a RELAX NG schema
for the output document, so that it becomes xslt: aware. For example,
so that if there is a required attribute of x, it will be satisfied either
by the presence of x or by the presence of any xslt: namespace
child. This would not give spurious validation errors, though it is weak.
B.t.w., I will be giving a talk on various kinds of validation like this
at XML 2002 Europe "When well-formedness is too much and
validity is not enough". Please come along!
Cheers
Rick Jelliffe
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