This is because of the built-in templates. You can change the matcher to
'bla' and it will work too. The processing is not dependent on the templates
but on the node-order in the xml. For every node, which "has" a template,
this template will be used, otherwise the built-in template shows the
text-value of this node. You can change your stylesheet in another way too
for seeing the effect:

>  <xsl:template match="id('x123')">
>      <i><xsl:value-of select="."/></i>
>  </xsl:template>

So you should see "Hello World" in italic. If not, the built-in template is
used.

Joerg

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Renshaw" <renshaw_steve@[...].com> 
To: <xsl-list@[...].com> 
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 7:11 PM
Subject: Re: [xsl] is ID definition in DTD necessday for id()


>  I thought it was necessary initially, but the following xml and xsl
display
>  "Hello World" in IE6 whether the doctype in included or not.
>  Am I msising something ehre?
> 
>  doit.xml
>  =========
>  <?xml version="1.0"?>
>  <!DOCTYPE root [
>  <!ELEMENT root (item)>
>  <!ELEMENT item (#PCDATA)>
>  <!ATTLIST item id ID #REQUIRED>
>  ]>
>  <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="doit.xsl"?>
>  <root><item id="x123">Hello World</item></root>
> 
>  doit.xsl
>  =========
>  <?xml version="1.0"?>
>  <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
>  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
> 
>  <xsl:template match="id('x123')">
>        <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>     </xsl:template>
> 
>  </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
>  >From: David Carlisle <davidc@[...].uk>
>  >Reply-To: xsl-list@[...].com
>  >To: xsl-list@[...].com
>  >Subject: Re: [xsl] is ID definition in DTD necessday for id()
>  >Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 17:28:36 GMT
>  >
>  > > Quick questions -is it needed to use a dtd definition in the XML
>  > > source
>  >
>  >yes, the attribute does not need to be called id the only thing that
>  >matters is that it has been declared as type ID in a dtd.
>  >
>  > > - it isn't a function or is it?
>  >It's a function, it takes a string valued argument and returns a node
>  >set.
>  >
>  >David


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