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10-08-2004, 12:51 AM
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XHTML - Doctype and output
What is the proper doctype syntax for XHTML transitional??? Strict? How
come XSLT doesn't preserve XHTML when it is compiled (Xalan)? Meaning, <br /> tags become <br> <input /> tags become <input> etc. It seems I am dazed and confused? Any hints or clear online resources appreciated. John johkar |
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10-08-2004, 07:03 AM
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Re: XHTML - Doctype and output
johkar wrote:
> What is the proper doctype syntax for XHTML transitional??? Strict? http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html > How come XSLT doesn't preserve XHTML when it is compiled (Xalan)? > Meaning, <br /> tags become <br> <input /> tags become <input> etc. Maybe you have it set to generate HTML output. -- David Dorward <http://blog.dorward.me.uk/> <http://dorward.me.uk/> Home is where the ~/.bashrc is |
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10-08-2004, 12:15 PM
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Re: XHTML - Doctype and output
johkar wrote: > What is the proper doctype syntax for XHTML transitional??? Strict? How > come XSLT doesn't preserve XHTML when it is compiled (Xalan)? Meaning, <br > /> tags become <br> <input /> tags become <input> etc. It seems I am dazed > and confused? Any hints or clear online resources appreciated. Well the XSLT 1.0 output method html is supposed to output according to HTML rules and not XHTML rules thus if you have <xsl  utput method="html" />or you happen to have a root result element <html> then the XSLT processor uses the html output method and in HTML a br element in the tree needs to be serialized as <br>, an input element in the tree needs to be serialized as <input>. See http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-HTML-Output-Method Thus if you want to have XHTML as the result of an XSLT 1.0 transformation you need to use <xsl utput method="xml" />Some processors (like Saxon for instance, I don't know about Xalan) also know a special output method called xhtml that outputs XHTML according to the HTML 4.01 backwards compatibility rules given in the XHTML 1.0 specification. -- Martin Honnen http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/ |
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10-09-2004, 01:39 AM
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Re: XHTML - Doctype and output
Thank you both for the replies and good info.
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