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Special Edition Using XSLT
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Special Edition Using XSLT

by Michael Floyd
January 2002
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
11h 5m
English
Que
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Asking the Right Questions

The first question you should ask yourself is the equivalent of “Is it plugged in?” In our case, you should ask the following basic questions:

  • Is the source document well formed?

  • Can the document be validated against a DTD or XML schema?

  • Is the style sheet loading properly?

The first question sounds like a no-brainer. If you’ve authored the document by hand, surely the last step is to run the document through a parser to ensure it is well formed. However, documents are often created or modified at runtime by an application. If you are relying on an application to generate XML data, and you’ve successfully tested your style sheet against a sample document, this is the first place to look for problems. For a dynamically ...

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