It looks like it's actually complaining about the doctype-public attribute, not the version="1.1". This should be on the xsl:output element not xsl:stylesheet. HTH John On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 15:00 +0100, Anna Kresmer wrote: > Thank you so much to all who replied. I have made the suggested changes > and the code at the beginning of the ead file now looks like this: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?> > <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" > href="http://www.nfb.org/tenbroek/ead_divs.xsl"?> > <!DOCTYPE ead PUBLIC "+//ISBN 1-931666-00-8//DTD ead.dtd (Encoded Archival > Description (EAD) Version 2002)//EN" "http://www.nfb.org/tenbroek/ead.dtd"> > > However, we have now run into a new problem. The trasnformation process is > failing to convert the finding aid to HTML. It appears that the xsl > stylesheet I am using is causing the problem this time. According to > Oxygen Editor, the problematic code is this: > > <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" > xmlns:saxon="http://icl.com/saxon" extension-element-prefixes="saxon" > doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" version="1.1"> > > Specifically, it does not like the version-"1.1". The error report states > that: > > Engine name: Saxon-PE 9.2.0.2 > Severity: fatal > Description: Attribute @doctype-public is not allowed on element > <xsl:stylesheet> > > I had initially simply placed a space between the period and the second > one (which made no sense to me, but it made the error go away in Oxygen). > However, with or without this extra space, it won't complete the > transformation scenario for me or IT on our web server. > > Does anyone know how I can fix this error? I can not seem to wrap my brain > around it. Thank you for all the advice and support you have already > given. I truly appreciate having this wonderful professional community to > call upon. > > Thanks, > Anna Kresmer -- '. ,'. John Harrison ' ` ' ' University of Liverpool c h e s h i r e | 3 e: [log in to unmask] v w: www.cheshire3.org `-..;.' t: 0151 7954271 .., (c)