i have the following rule,
<xsl:template match="br">
<br/>
</xsl:template>
This should convert all <br/> to <br/>
but, my transformer transforms it all to
<br></br>
Ok this does not look like a problem but i use it in a
web application and microsoft interpretes this
as 2 <br/><br/>
How can i force the transformer to not use the
implicit end tag like this <br/> ?
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Tempore 10:23:19, die Friday 01 July 2005 AD, hinc in foro {comp.text.xml} scripsit Tjerk Wolterink <tj***@wolterin kwebdesign.com> : How can i force the transformer to not use the
implicit end tag like this <br/> ?
Set your output method to 'html'.
regards,
--
Joris Gillis ( http://users.telenet.be/root-jg/me.html)
Ceterum censeo XML omnibus esse utendum How can i force the transformer to not use the
implicit end tag like this <br/> ?
If you are writing html then you should use the html output method
and this will be output as <br> However if you are writing xml then
within standard xslt there is no way to customise this although your
system may allow you to specify a non standard serialiser.
If you send xml to IE as text/html then it will parse it as html and
not understanding XML syntax for br is only a small part of the
problems.. If you send it with an XML mime type then it will use an xml
parser and parse it correctly, but you then have to supply a stylesheet
in order for it to display as it doesn't have xhtml support built in.
David
Joris Gillis wrote: Tempore 10:23:19, die Friday 01 July 2005 AD, hinc in foro
{comp.text.xml} scripsit Tjerk Wolterink <tj***@wolterin kwebdesign.com> :
How can i force the transformer to not use the
implicit end tag like this <br/> ?
Set your output method to 'html'.
regards,
it is set to html:
<xsl:output method="html" indent="yes"/>
David Carlisle wrote: How can i force the transformer to not use the
implicit end tag like this <br/> ?
If you are writing html then you should use the html output method
and this will be output as <br> However if you are writing xml then
within standard xslt there is no way to customise this although your
system may allow you to specify a non standard serialiser.
ok im outputting to XHTML TRANSITIONAL:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dt d">
So it think i should set the output method to xml,
and internet explorer should see <br></br> as a single br.
If you send xml to IE as text/html then it will parse it as html and
not understanding XML syntax for br is only a small part of the
problems.. If you send it with an XML mime type then it will use an xml
parser and parse it correctly, but you then have to supply a stylesheet
in order for it to display as it doesn't have xhtml support built in.
David
Ok i will try to set the response mime type to text/xml,
is text/xhtml also possible?
David Carlisle wrote: Ok i will try to set the response mime type to text/xml,
ok (or application/xml is probably better)
is text/xhtml also possible?
no, the declared type for xhtml is text/xhtml+xml but IE doesn't know
about that.
You will need to use <?xml-stylesheet to specify a stylesheet (which can
simply be <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
But if you need to send to IE, why not send HTML, which it understands,
rather than XHTML, which it doesn't?
I'm sending it as html now, with output method set to html,
but then my document is not valid anymore,
elements like <meta and <br are not closed now,
does html transitional force you to close them??
Another strange thing,
I run 2 separate xsl-processors (my hosting provider runs
another version of libxslt)
My processor understands <xsl:output method="html"
and converts <br></br> to <br>
But the processor at the hostingprovider does not understand it.
It makes me crazy
I thought xsl was a standard, but each processor handles that standard
differently I'm sending it as html now, with output method set to html,
but then my document is not valid anymore,
XSLT does not ensure its output is valid, it is the responsibility of
the stylesheet author to do that. If the stylesheet generates an
element foobar then xslt will happily write <foobar>..</foobar>
and the resulting html will not validate.
If you were writing valid xhtml and you change the method to html and
change the doctype to specify an html dtd then it is very unlikely that
the result is invalid html. What validation error do you get?
elements like <meta and <br> are not closed now,
does html transitional force you to close them??
They are declared EMPTY in the HTML DTD so they are never opened and
don't need (and can't be) closed. HTML is not an XML language and doesn't
use XML syntax. <br> is the correct syntax for the element (or <BR> as
html is not case sensitive) <br></br> is a syntax error, <br/> is
legal syntax but equivalent to <br>> and should (on a conformant system)
typeset a > after the newline. (Most browsers though don't do this, but
then they don't use conformant html parsers, they use purpose built
parsers aimed to do "something sensible" even in the face of incorrect
markup)
But the processor at the hostingprovider does not understand it.
It makes me crazy
The XSLt spec specifies that <xsl:output method="html" must be
understood (that is, not generate an xslt error) but any xslt system may
always ignore the xsl:output instruction and use its own system
specific methods to output the file. (For example in cocoon the output
from xslt is always piped to another trandformation process or
serialiser and so not serialised under the control of the stylesheet and
xsl:output is ignored.
I thought xsl was a standard, but each processor handles that standard
differently
At places where the standard explictly authorises this difference.
David
David Carlisle wrote: I'm sending it as html now, with output method set to html,
but then my document is not valid anymore,
XSLT does not ensure its output is valid, it is the responsibility of
the stylesheet author to do that. If the stylesheet generates an
element foobar then xslt will happily write <foobar>..</foobar>
and the resulting html will not validate.
If you were writing valid xhtml and you change the method to html and
change the doctype to specify an html dtd then it is very unlikely that
the result is invalid html. What validation error do you get?
Errors like this:
line 11 column 5 - Warning: <meta> element not empty or not closed
line 25 column 5 - Warning: <link> element not empty or not closed
line 2 column 1 - Warning: <html> proprietary attribute "xmlns:menu "
A piece of the generated html page:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
<html xmlns:r="http://www.wolterinkwe bdesign.com/xml/roles"
xmlns:menu="htt p://www.wolterinkwe bdesign.com/xml/menu"
xmlns:page="htt p://www.wolterinkwe bdesign.com/xml/page"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Scharenb org :: Assurantien en hyptheken</title>
<!--
! Wolterink Webdesign
! (C) Tjerk Wolterink
! tj***@wolterink webdesign.com
! 2005
-->
<meta name="keywords" content="Schare nborg Assurantien">
<meta name="descripti on" content="Berend sen Meubelen">
<meta name="author" content="Tjerk Wolterink;tj*** @wolterink.com" >
<meta name="publisher " content="Schare nborg Assurantien">
<meta name="language" content="nl">
<meta name="robots" content="all">
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://localhost/webapps/scharenborg/js/standard.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://localhost/webapps/scharenborg/js/xmlhttprequest. js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://localhost/webapps/scharenborg/js/xmlsax.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://localhost/webapps/scharenborg/js/xmlw3cdom.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://localhost/webapps/scharenborg/js/vcXMLRPC.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://localhost/webapps/scharenborg/js/fck_editor/fckeditor.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://localhost/webapps/scharenborg/js/xcm.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://localhost/webapps/scharenborg/js/submenu.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet " type="text/css" media="screen"
href="http://localhost/webapps/scharenborg/css/style.css">
elements like <meta and <br> are not closed now,
does html transitional force you to close them??
They are declared EMPTY in the HTML DTD so they are never opened and
don't need (and can't be) closed.
With closing i also mean: <br/> (properly closed empty tag)
HTML is not an XML language and doesn't
use XML syntax. <br> is the correct syntax for the element (or <BR> as
html is not case sensitive) <br></br> is a syntax error, <br/> is
legal syntax but equivalent to <br>> and should (on a conformant system)
typeset a > after the newline. (Most browsers though don't do this, but
then they don't use conformant html parsers, they use purpose built
parsers aimed to do "something sensible" even in the face of incorrect
markup)
Ok i understand, but html transitional and html strict are not xml
languages? Or am i interchanging xhtml and html wrongly?
But the processor at the hostingprovider does not understand it.
It makes me crazy
The XSLt spec specifies that <xsl:output method="html" must be
understood (that is, not generate an xslt error) but any xslt system may
always ignore the xsl:output instruction and use its own system
specific methods to output the file. (For example in cocoon the output
from xslt is always piped to another trandformation process or
serialiser and so not serialised under the control of the stylesheet and
xsl:output is ignored.
I thought xsl was a standard, but each processor handles that standard
differently
At places where the standard explictly authorises this difference.
So the conclusion of this is:
IF your writing an html application that uses xsl transformation
to output the html, then
you have to change the xsl for each xsltransformer-implementation,
and sometimes it just doest work,
for example with those <br><br/> tags,
Is there no possibility to enforce the parser to use <br/> for
empty tags?
Errors like this:
line 11 column 5 - Warning: <meta> element not empty or not closed
Looks like those come from an XMl parser.
Parsing HTML with an XML parser is like parsing FORTRAN with a CParser,
you get errors, but it doesn't mean that there is anything wrong with
the file.
A piece of the generated html page:
That looks Ok except of course all teh xml namespace declarations
xmlns:... are invald html attributes. With closing i also mean: <br/> (properly closed empty tag)
But as I said /> is XML syntax. It is not the syntax for an empty element
in HTML.
Ok i understand, but html transitional and html strict are not xml
languages? Or am i interchanging xhtml and html wrongly?
No version of HTML is an XML language. They are all defined via SGML
DTD. The XML versions are all called XHTML.
So the conclusion of this is:
IF your writing an html application that uses xsl transformation
to output the html, then
you have to change the xsl for each xsltransformer-implementation,
No that is not the conclusion at all.
You don't have to change your stylesheet but you may have to specify
that you want html serialisation in other (system specific) places.
The reason why XSLT doesn't mandate that xsl:ouput always has an effect
is that it allowes the result tree to be passed on as an in-memory treee
(or stream of sax events, or any other internal representation) This is
what happens in cocoon or if you run xslt inside of mozilla.
If the result tree is being passed on in such an in-memory format it is
never serialised to a linear document including tags so the hints on
xsl:output as to how to serialse the tree are never used.
Is there no possibility to enforce the parser to use <br/> for
empty tags?
You can force xslt to use <br/> syntax by using the xml output method,
but that is not correct html markup for a line break..
You have to decide what you want to do, generate html or generate xhtml,
and in the later case you need to decide if you want to make IE be able
to read the file as it has no built in xhtml support (unlike say mozilla
or opera which can render xhtml files).
The simplest, if you do not need xhtml in the document, is just to
generate html.
David
David Carlisle wrote: Errors like this:
line 11 column 5 - Warning: <meta> element not empty or not closed
Looks like those come from an XMl parser.
Parsing HTML with an XML parser is like parsing FORTRAN with a CParser,
you get errors, but it doesn't mean that there is anything wrong with
the file.
A piece of the generated html page:
That looks Ok except of course all teh xml namespace declarations
xmlns:... are invald html attributes.
With closing i also mean: <br/> (properly closed empty tag)
But as I said /> is XML syntax. It is not the syntax for an empty element
in HTML.
Ok i understand, but html transitional and html strict are not xml
languages? Or am i interchanging xhtml and html wrongly?
No version of HTML is an XML language. They are all defined via SGML
DTD. The XML versions are all called XHTML.
So the conclusion of this is:
IF your writing an html application that uses xsl transformation
to output the html, then
you have to change the xsl for each xsltransformer-implementation,
No that is not the conclusion at all.
You don't have to change your stylesheet but you may have to specify
that you want html serialisation in other (system specific) places.
The reason why XSLT doesn't mandate that xsl:ouput always has an effect
is that it allowes the result tree to be passed on as an in-memory treee
(or stream of sax events, or any other internal representation) This is
what happens in cocoon or if you run xslt inside of mozilla.
If the result tree is being passed on in such an in-memory format it is
never serialised to a linear document including tags so the hints on
xsl:output as to how to serialse the tree are never used.
Is there no possibility to enforce the parser to use <br/> for
empty tags?
You can force xslt to use <br/> syntax by using the xml output method,
but that is not correct html markup for a line break..
You have to decide what you want to do, generate html or generate xhtml,
and in the later case you need to decide if you want to make IE be able
to read the file as it has no built in xhtml support (unlike say mozilla
or opera which can render xhtml files).
The simplest, if you do not need xhtml in the document, is just to
generate html.
David
ok i want html,
but why how do i overcome the problem that the parser/transformer
on the hostingprovider does not listen to the xsl:output method attribute?
Now it just renders to the xml output method, and that does not render
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