Allowing mis-matched tags (non-well-formed XML)

nadahalli

Hello,

I have an XSL file that has something like this:

<xsl:if test-condition1>
<body attribute1 attribute2>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:if test-condition2>
<body attribute3 attribute4>
</xsl:if>
[[[BODY CONTENT]]]
</body>

This fails to compile as this is not a well formed XML file
(mismatched body tag). Is there a simple workaround without
duplicating the entire body contents across both condition bodies.

-woolee_master

Apr 3 '07 #1

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Andy Dingley

On 3 Apr, 14:03, nadaha...@gmail.com wrote:

Is there a simple workaround without
duplicating the entire body contents across both condition bodies.

You need to keep your XSL source well-formed and valid.

Duplicate the <bodystart tag

Use <xsl:attribute name="..." value="..." /within your tests.

You might even use <xsl:attribute name="..." before your tests and
then just return the values for these attributes from within the tests
(check the whitespace though). I assume that you#re generating HTML
here and your "attributes" are something like "class" or "title" where
you're using the same attribute each time, but with diffferent values.

Perhaps best of all though is to set up a variable simply and cleanly
beforehand, then use it in the start tag:

<body class="{$classNames}" >

Apr 3 '07 #2

nadahalli

Yes, my attributes are class, title, and such like.

I had given an instance of a bigger problem I face. My overall problem
is that I want malformed HTML to be output as a result of my XSL
transformation. But the XSL style-sheet doesn't allow it. I tried
stuffing all my malformed HTML into CDATA so that XSL treats it like
data and not XML/HTML. That doesn't work because XALAN later escapes
CDATA and browsers don't render the escaped HTML.

Any help? If I am being too vague, I can mail some XSL snippets.

-woolee_master.

On Apr 3, 7:18 pm, "Andy Dingley" <ding...@codesmiths.comwrote:

On 3 Apr, 14:03, nadaha...@gmail.com wrote:

Is there a simple workaround without
duplicating the entire body contents across both condition bodies.

You need to keep your XSL source well-formed and valid.

Duplicate the <bodystart tag

Use <xsl:attribute name="..." value="..." /within your tests.

You might even use <xsl:attribute name="..." before your tests and
then just return the values for these attributes from within the tests
(check the whitespace though). I assume that you#re generating HTML
here and your "attributes" are something like "class" or "title" where
you're using the same attribute each time, but with diffferent values.

Perhaps best of all though is to set up a variable simply and cleanly
beforehand, then use it in the start tag:

<body class="{$classNames}" >

Apr 17 '07 #3

Johannes Koch

na*******@gmail.com schrieb:

I have an XSL file that has something like this:

<xsl:if test-condition1>
<body attribute1 attribute2>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:if test-condition2>
<body attribute3 attribute4>
</xsl:if>
[[[BODY CONTENT]]]
</body>

Something like:

<body>
<xsl:if test="test-condition1">
<xsl:attribute name="attribute1">...</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="attribute2">...</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="test-condition2">
<xsl:attribute name="attribute3">...</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="attribute4">...</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:if>
[[[BODY CONTENT]]]
</body>

--
Johannes Koch
In te domine speravi; non confundar in aeternum.
(Te Deum, 4th cent.)

Apr 17 '07 #4

Joseph Kesselman

na*******@gmail.com wrote:

is that I want malformed HTML to be output as a result of my XSL
transformation.

If you step outside the assumptions of the XML world, you're going to
have to fight the tools every step of the way.

For example: You could try to achieve this by setting the output to text
rather than HTML. But then you're going to have to hand-construct every
single tag in the output.

Personally, my solution would be to discard and replace whatever tool is
demanding ill-formed files, NOW. Life's too short to spend it working
around broken applications.

--
Joe Kesselman / Beware the fury of a patient man. -- John Dryden

Apr 17 '07 #5

Simon Brooke

in message <11**********************@y5g2000hsa.googlegroups. com>,
na*******@gmail.com ('na*******@gmail.com') wrote:

Yes, my attributes are class, title, and such like.

I had given an instance of a bigger problem I face. My overall problem
is that I want malformed HTML to be output as a result of my XSL
transformation. But the XSL style-sheet doesn't allow it. I tried
stuffing all my malformed HTML into CDATA so that XSL treats it like
data and not XML/HTML. That doesn't work because XALAN later escapes
CDATA and browsers don't render the escaped HTML.

Any help? If I am being too vague, I can mail some XSL snippets.

-woolee_master.

You cannot do this. And it's a good thing that you cannot do this. The
world has much too much malformed HTML already, we don't need any more.

--
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\__/ ~~~~~~~~~ \__/ Citroen 2cv6 IS a four door family saloon.

Apr 17 '07 #6

Joe Kesselman

na*******@gmail.com wrote:

That doesn't work because XALAN later escapes
CDATA and browsers don't render the escaped HTML.

It is possible to tell XSLT that you would prefer the content of some
elements be escaped via <![[CDATA]]section markup, rather than
character by character. See xsl:output's cdata-section-elements attribute.

But explicitly relying upon CDATA Sections is a sin and an abomination
before the eyes of the Architects.

--
() ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Joe Kesselman
/\ Stamp out HTML e-mail! | System architexture and kinetic poetry

Apr 18 '07 #7

Andy Dingley

On 17 Apr, 13:42, nadaha...@gmail.com wrote:

My overall problem
is that I want malformed HTML to be output as a result of my XSL
transformation.

No you don't.

You don't need this. There's nothing out there worth using that
requires you to do this. Why do you think you do?

If you mean "I want to generate HTML that isn't well-formed XML", then
that's fine (but isn't "malformed"). Just use

<xsl:output method="html" />

Apr 18 '07 #8

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