Validate xsl fo in xslt styleesheet

Question

Hi, i have a little problem with validating xml, xslt in details. I have a xslt stylesheet that, transforms xml data source to xsl:fo document. Something like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"&gt;
<xsl:template match="/">
    <fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;
        <fo:layout-master-set>
            <fo:simple-page-master margin-top="25mm" margin-bottom="25mm" margin-left="25mm" margin-right="25mm" page-width="210mm" page-height="297mm" master-name="simplePageLayout">
                <fo:region-body region-name="xsl-region-body" column-gap="0.25in" />
                <fo:region-before region-name="xsl-region-before" display-align="after" extent="0.1mm" padding-top="0pt" padding-left="0.4in" padding-right="0.4in" padding-bottom="0pt" />
                <fo:region-after region-name="xsl-region-after" display-align="before" extent="0.4in" padding-top="4pt" padding-left="0.4in" padding-right="0.4in" padding-bottom="0pt" />
            </fo:simple-page-master>
            <fo:page-sequence-master master-name="default-sequence">
                <fo:repeatable-page-master-reference master-reference="simplePageLayout" />
            </fo:page-sequence-master>
        </fo:layout-master-set>
        <fo:page-sequence master-reference="default-sequence">
            <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
                <fo:block font-family="Segoe UI" color="#000000" font-size="9pt" />
            </fo:flow>
        </fo:page-sequence>
    </fo:root>
</xsl:template>

What I want to do, is to validate written xsl:fo elements, ignoring xsl tags. Is it posible? For now I use dtd validation (I have xsd schema too) for validating Fo, but it give me an error on each xsl tag.

Summary. Is it posiible to validate only fo elements against the schema, ignoring xsl tags, and how should I do it? Maybe a code snnippet in C#, or a hint how to modify documents?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

What you want to do the schema validation against is the output after you do the transform, not against the XSLT document. When you run the XSLT transformation against the input XML, the resulting output shouldn't contain any of the XSL tags.