RE: [xsl] XSLT processor adds unwanted HTML attributes

Subject: RE: [xsl] XSLT processor adds unwanted HTML attributes
From: Mulberry Technologies List Owner <xsl-list-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 09:53:47 -0800
>Reply-To: <michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: RE: [xsl] XSLT processor adds unwanted HTML attributes
>Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 09:22:32 -0000



>Firstly, xsl:document is a feature of the draft XSLT 1.1 specification,
>which was subsequently withdrawn, so you won't find it in most XSLT 1.0
>processors. There are various proprietary extensions that offer the same
>functionality (but not in MSXML3).
>
>Secondly, the most likely source of the unwanted attributes is the DTD:
>a validating parser will add default attributes defined in the DTD to
>the data model that XSLT takes as its input. To suppress this behavior,
>remove the reference to the DTD, or create an alternative DTD that
>doesn't have the defaults in.
>
>Michael Kay
>Software AG
>home: Michael.H.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>work: Michael.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: 16 February 2003 20:52
>> To: xsl-list
>> Subject: [xsl] XSLT processor adds unwanted HTML attributes
>>
>>
>> From: Graham Hannington <Ghannington@xxxxxxx>
>> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: XSLT processor adds unwanted HTML attributes
>> Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 13:22:48 -0000
>>
>>
>> I'm splitting a single, large XML (well, XHTML) file into
>> multiple files, breaking at the <h1> elements.
>>
>> I'm using the following stylesheet:
>>
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
>> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'
>> version="1.1" >
>>
>> <xsl:preserve-space elements="*" />
>>
>> <xsl:output method="xml" />
>>
>>  <xsl:template match="h1">
>>   <xsl:variable name="file_name" select="concat(., '.htm')" />
>>   <xsl:message>Splitting <xsl:copy-of select="$file_name" />
>> ...</xsl:message>
>>   <xsl:document href="{$file_name}" >
>> <html>
>> <xsl:text>&#x0A;</xsl:text>
>> <head>
>> <xsl:text>&#x0A;&#x09;</xsl:text>
>>	<link rel="StyleSheet" href="style/default.css" />
>> <xsl:text>&#x0A;&#x09;</xsl:text>
>>	<script src="style/default.vbs"
>> language="VBScript"></script> <xsl:text>&#x0A;</xsl:text>
>> </head> <xsl:text>&#x0A;</xsl:text> <body> <xsl:text>&#x0A;</xsl:text>
>>    <xsl:copy-of select="." />
>> <xsl:text>&#x0A;</xsl:text>
>>	<xsl:call-template name="followingElements"/>
>> <xsl:text>&#x0A;</xsl:text> </body>
>> <xsl:text>&#x0A;</xsl:text> </html>
>>   </xsl:document>
>>  </xsl:template>
>>
>>	<xsl:template name="followingElements">
>>		<xsl:for-each
>> select="following-sibling::*[1][not(self::h1)]">
>>			<xsl:copy-of select="." />
>>			<xsl:text>&#x0A;</xsl:text>
>>			<xsl:call-template name="followingElements"/>
>>		</xsl:for-each>
>>	</xsl:template>
>>
>> </xsl:stylesheet>
>>
>>
>> (I wish I knew a better way to have line breaks than to code
>> all that &#x0A stuff.  Maybe call a named template each time
>> instead, I guess.  Stuart
>> Brown: you'll probably recognize some of your code in that
>> followingElements template... thanks again :-)
>>
>>
>> Here's the problem (with apologies, I realize this dips into
>> XSLT processor-specific behaviour):
>>
>> - MSXSL (the command-line interface to MSXML) appears to not
>> support the <xsl:document> element.
>>
>> - Saxon works fine, but - here's the annoying bit - adds
>> colspan and rowspan attributes to my <td> tags (even though
>> I'm specifying XML as the output method). I interpret Saxon
>> as doing something "naughty" here, or am I wrong?
>>
>> How do I stop these well-meaning additions?  (To - hopefully
>> - avoid flames for discussing processor-specific
>> implementation issues: I don't know for sure that this is a
>> Saxon-specific thing... it could be that XSLT processors in
>> general are allowed to do this stuff unless they're told
>> otherwise; I just don't know how to tell them otherwise ;-)
>>
>> Graham Hannington
>>
>>  XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
> >
>>



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