"Iwan" <Iwan@d...> wrote in message
news:3BFF1455-80BE-4685-A8A3-B26A84D747C0@m......
> Hi everyone,
>
> I need help on how to dynamically generate a DOCTYPE declaration in an XML
> file using XSLT.
> Basically, I need to generate either one of the following DOCTYPE
> declaration on my output XML file:
>
> <!DOCTYPE EE_Data SYSTEM "EEList_HLTP.dtd">
>
> OR
>
> <!DOCTYPE EE_Data SYSTEM "EEListRep_HLTP.dtd">
>
>
> I have used <xsl:output> in my XSLT file, which looks like the following:
>
> <xsl:variable name="doctypeSystem">
>   <xsl:choose>
>     <xsl:when
>
test="string-length(CBAEnvelope/CBABatchHeader/CBAApplication/Identifier[@Ty
pe='Transact']/@UniqueID) = 0">
>       <xsl:value-of select="'EEList_HLTP.dtd'"/>
>     </xsl:when>
>     <xsl:otherwise>
>       <xsl:value-of select="'EEListRep_HLTP.dtd'"/>
>     </xsl:otherwise>
>   </xsl:choose>
> </xsl:variable>
>
> <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" doctype-system="$doctypeSystem"/>
>
> The idea here is that I have used a variable to store the value of the
> doctype-system and assign to it later, but unfortunately this does not
work.
>
> Anyone has any idea on how to make this work? I really need help on this
> urgently.
>
> Thank you and kind regards,

I can't think of a way to do this inside XSL.

One option would be to create two other XSL files each import your original
file.  Then move the output element to these where one specifies the EEList
dtd and the other EEListRep.

You would then need external code to choose which of these to invoke:-

sXPath =
"CBAEnvelope/CBABatchHeader/CBAApplication/Identifier[@Type='Transact' and
string-length(@UniqueID) = 0]"

If Not oDOM.selectSingleNode(sXPath) Is Nothing Then
    'Use EEList
Else
    'Use EEListRep
End If