Subject: Re: [xsl] Control over html output From: Jeni Tennison <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 15:48:33 +0100 |
Hi Andy, > In this case the linebreak causes undesirable whitespace to appear > in the resulting document in certain browsers. At the moment I'm > having to rely on the rather crude solution of setting the html > output indent to "no" to avoid this, but this seems a rather > inelegant solution... That's the most elegant solution you'll find :) By default, processors indent HTML output, which means they can add whitespace to make it easier to read. The indent attribute on xsl:output is specifically designed to control that. > On a similar note, is there any way to specify strict xhtml output? > I've experimented with adding the xhtml doctype declaration but this > hasn't really affected the output of the elements, e.g. <br/> in the > stylesheet still gets output as <br> in spite of the doctype... The rules for the html output method say that <br/> must be output as <br> and so on. If you want well-formed XML output, such as XHTML, then you should tell the processor that's what you want: <xsl:output method="xml" /> You can then set the doctype-public and doctype-system as you know, and use the XHTML namespace as appropriate. However, you should be a little careful doing this. The XML serialisers usually serialise in a way that breaks the HTML compatibility guidelines in XHTML 1.0 (e.g. they output <br/> rather than <br /> and use empty element for everything. Some processors have a special extension XHTML output method to bring XHTML output into line with the guidelines - I don't know if Xalan has. I hope that helps, Jeni --- Jeni Tennison http://www.jenitennison.com/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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