[xslt] Option --novalid of xsltproc

["Thomas Mauch" <thomas mauch calanda-technology com>]

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Hello,

I'm using xsltproc to transform XML document and trying to figure out what exactly the --novalid option influences. As it seems to me, even if this option is not specified, the DTD is not used for validating the input document.

If I specify "--novalid" on the command line, the DTDs referenced in the input document are completely ignored, they even may be missing - what makes sense. On the other hand, if I do NOT specify "--novalid", I get an error message saying "failed to load external entity" if the DTD is missing or a "unable to parse" message, if the DTD is corrupt; if the DTD is well-formed however, but the input document does not complies to the constraints in the DTD (i.e. it is not a valid XML document), nothing happens. What am I missing?

Thomas