Subject: Re: [xsl] Understanding why <tag></tag> is the way it is (was Re: [xsl] IE Client side transformation issue) From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 18:01:39 +0100 |
> but the first will not render well in IE, That's like sending fortran to a C compiler and complaing that it doesn't work. IE is an HTML system so if you send something to IE it gets parsed as HTML, whether or not it's valid XHTML is irrelevant. If you want to send XHTML to IE (as XHTML) you need to put an xml-stylesheet PI specifying a CSS or XSLT stylesheet that tells IE how to render it. IE's default rendering of IE is as a folding tree view of the XML markup. > The opposite is also true, if the content is not defined as EMPTY in the > DTD (i.e, like a <p> tag), omitting the end-tag is allowed by the > spec, it's allowed for some elements and not for others. You can also omit the start tag in some cases as well (body, tbody head and html for example) David ________________________________________________________________________ The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 1249803. The registered office is: Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road, Oxford OX2 8DR, United Kingdom. This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. ________________________________________________________________________
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