[xsl] Re: xhtml via xslt failure

Subject: [xsl] Re: xhtml via xslt failure
From: e-letter <inpost@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 20:38:24 +0000
On 15/12/2013, e-letter <inpost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>     An xml stylesheet was created:
>

This was edited to:

<!--
<xsl:template match="/bookstore">
	<html lang="en" xml:lang="en">
		<head>
			<meta name="note" content="xhtml document created by xml transformation" />
			<title>Test output web page</title>
		</head>
		<body>
			<xsl:apply-templates select="book/author"/>
		</body>
	</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="author">
	<p><xsl:value-of select="./text()"/></p>
</xsl:template>-->
<xsl:stylesheet
	version="2.0"
	xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
	>
	<xsl:import href="xqueryexampledata.xml"/>
	<xsl:output
		method="xml"
		doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML Basic 1.1//EN"
		doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-basic/xhtml-basic11.dtd";
		encoding="utf-8"
		indent="no"
		omit-xml-declaration="yes"
		media-type="text/xml"
		standalone="yes"
		version="1.1"
		/>
	<xsl:template
		match='/'
		>
		<html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' lang='en' xml:lang='en'>
			<head>
				<meta
					name='notice' content='xhtml document created by xml transformation' />
				<title>Test output web page</title>
			</head>
			<body>
				<xsl:apply-templates
					select='/*'
					/>
			</body>
		</html>
	</xsl:template>
	<xsl:template
		match="/bookstore/book"
		>
			<p xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
				<xsl:apply-templates
					select='./author'
					/>
				<!--<xsl:value-of select="./author"/>-->
			</p>
	</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

The resultant xhtml file:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML Basic 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-basic/xhtml-basic11.dtd";>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en"
lang="en"><head><meta content="xhtml document created by xml
transformation" name="notice" /><title>Test output web
page</title></head><body>
	<p>Giada De Laurentiis</p>
	<p>J K. Rowling</p>
	<p>James McGovernPer BothnerKurt CagleJames LinnVaidyanathan Nagarajan</p>
	<p>Erik T. Ray</p>
</body></html>

According to the specification the above transformation can be
achieved using either element 'apply-templates' or element 'value-of'.

Why is it that when the element 'value-of' in the stylesheet above is
substituted for the element 'apply-templates', the result is a
truncation of the third line in the xhtml file, i.e. to:

...
<p>James McGovern</p>
...

Also, it it possible to add whitespace  and punctuation to the xhtml output, eg.

...
<p>James McGovern, Per Bothner, Kurt Cagle, James Linn, Vaidyanathan
Nagarajan</p>
...

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