Re: [xsl] Open Meta Tag problem

Got it, thanks Wendell.  My output method is "xml", my doctype is:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";>

Net result, valid xhtml content and no auto-generated bad meta
content-type tag.  To be safe, should I add:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

To my <head> tag?  If so, is there such thing as an "xhtml" content type?

Thanks,
Karl..

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Karl,
>
> At 03:31 PM 5/20/2010, you wrote:
>>
>> This seems like such an ancient topic, but here it goes...
>>
>> I have the following:
>> <xsl:output indent="yes" doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
>> doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"/>
>>
>> The resulting HTML document has a bad content-type meta tag:
>> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
>>
>> (It is not closed)
>
> This is not "bad" unless by "bad" you mean "not XML". And HTML is not XML.
>
> HTML -- more to the point, the variant of HTML your stylesheet believes it
> should produce -- is an application of SGML, in which this particular tag
> (and indeed, any other tags for elements declared in its DTD as EMPTY, such
> as 'img' and 'br' and 'hr') need not be matched with a corresponding close
> tag.
>
>> I've tried various doctypes and the results seem to be the same.  How
>> do I solve this?
>
> If you want XML syntax, you need to configure your XSLT processor to give
it
> to you.
>
> This can generally be done quite easily:
>
> <xsl:output indent="yes" method="xml"/>
>
>> Also, while on the subject, what doctype do you use, and why?
>
> This very much depends on the local requirements.
>
> If using the doctype that you have cited (PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML
4.01//EN),
> however, I probably would *not* use method="xml", but instead method="html"
> (which is what you are getting, probably because your processor infers from
> the name of the document element of your result, 'html', that this is what
> you want). This is because the HTML 4.01 DTD is an SGML DTD not an XML DTD,
> and W3C-conformant HTML 4.01 processors do not expect those particular tags
> to be closed.
>
> If I knew, on the other hand, that I needed the output to be well-formed
> XML, I would probably use method="xml" to ensure as much, along with an
> XHTML doctype.
>
> I hope this helps --
> Wendell
>
>
>
> ======================================================================
> Wendell Piez                            mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Mulberry Technologies, Inc.                http://www.mulberrytech.com
> 17 West Jefferson Street                    Direct Phone: 301/315-9635
> Suite 207                                          Phone: 301/315-9631
> Rockville, MD  20850                                 Fax: 301/315-8285
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>  Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML
> ======================================================================
<- Previous	Index	Next ->
Re: [xsl] Open Meta Tag problem, Liam R E Quin	Thread	Re: [xsl] Open Meta Tag problem, Wendell Piez
Re: [xsl] Open Meta Tag problem, Liam R E Quin	Date	[xsl] Why should I put code in XSLT, Costello, Roger L.
	Month
<-prev [Thread] next->	<-prev [Date] next->
Month Index \| List Home