Re: Use XSLT to check a bunch of XHTML files for well-formedness?

"Martin Honnen [email protected]" <[email protected]> Tue, 16 Feb 2021 21:22:11 -0000
Newsgroups gmane.text.xml.xsl.general.mulberrytech
Organization Liberty Development
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 16.02.2021 22:10, Liam R. E. Quin [email protected] wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-02-16 at 21:04 +0000, Martin Honnen [email protected]
> wrote:
>>
>> In theory I think that should check with doc-available if the file is
>> well-formed or not. Haven't tested however.
>
> It catches some problems, but will try to load the DTD. You can use
> try/catch in XSLT to get most errors, but not all. However, i use
> either xmllint or xmlwf for this situation. Massively faster and
> easier, and more useful error messages most of the time, but xmllint
> doesn't report line numbers correctly after line 65535, so i use xmlwf
> in that case.

Yes, I agree that XSLT is not needed for this but as Roger asked on the
XSL list on how to use Saxon I thought it couldn't hurt to show an XSLT way.
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