Re: [docbook-apps] is there a good way to turn off doctype declarations in single and chunked xhtml output?

lol, that should be combined xhtml+mathml+svg DTD

On 10/3/06, Chris Chiasson <> wrote:
> The default configuration of the w3c combined xhtml+mathml+svg
> namespace has xhtml and mathml unprefixed, while svg is prefixed with
> svg:. If the stylesheets or customization layer removed the mml:
> prefix from MathML, then
>
> http://www.w3.org/Math/DTD/mathml2/xhtml-math11-f.dtd
>
> might be a valid DTD for xhtml+mathml+svg output.
>
> On 10/3/06, Bob Stayton <> wrote:
> > Hi Chris,
> > I've been running into the same problem.  For chunking, these parameters
> > set the doctype, and if you set them to empty strings, then you should get
> > no DOCTYPE in your chunked output:
> >
> > <xsl:param name="chunker.output.doctype-public" select="''"/>
> > <xsl:param name="chunker.output.doctype-system" select="''"/>
> >
> > For single file output, it seems to be very hard to eliminate the DOCTYPE.
> > The doctype-public and doctype-system attributes in the xsl:output would
> > normally control it.  There is such an xsl:output in xhtml/docbook.xsl that
> > contains the doctype values for XHTML that you see in your output.
> >
> > If a stylesheet has more than one xsl:output that specifies the same
> > attribute, then the first rule (according to Michael Kay's XSLT
> > Programmer's Reference 2nd edition page 272) is that an xsl:output that
> > specifies a value for the attribute takes precedence over the one that
> > leaves it defaulted.  The second rule is that if several xsl:output
> > elements specify a value for the same attribute, the one with the highest
> > import precedence wins.
> >
> > Unfortunately, this combination of rules leaves no option for resetting it
> > to blank in the customization layer.  If you leave out the attributes, then
> > the original ones apply.  If you add them but set them to an empty value,
> > then you get a DOCTYPE with empty values rather than no DOCTYPE.  I haven't
> > found a way to override the original to get no DOCTYPE.  I think you have
> > to edit the original xsl:output element in xhtml/docbook.xsl to remove the
> > attributes.  I hope someone tells me that I'm wrong.
> >
> > Bob Stayton
> > Sagehill Enterprises
> > DocBook Consulting
> > 
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Chris Chiasson" <>
> > To: "Docbook Apps" <>
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 2:37 PM
> > Subject: [docbook-apps] is there a good way to turn off doctype
> > declarations in single and chunked xhtml output?
> >
> >
> > > if so, would you please elaborate?
> > >
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