Re: using xslj and jade to produce html - a beginner's question

[ht@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Henry S. Thompson)]

"Kent Fitch" <kent.fitch@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I successfully used the Microsoft xsl tool to convert
> xml into html, but needing something which would also
> run under UNIX, I'm trying to understand xslj and Jade.  
> 
> The samples worked fine, but when I modified them to
> included an HTML tag in the xsl, problems started.
> 
> For example, the sample as supplied doesnt produce
> a list rendered until IE or netscape.  So, I tried
> to add <UL>...</UL> and <LI>..</LI> both as is and
> lowercase and within <literal>...</literal> with
> no success, eg:
> 
> xslj:hsimplekf1.xsl:88:13:E: element "UL" undefined
> xslj:hsimplekf1.xsl:88:10:W: unknown flow-object spec or macro

Two things are at issue here:

1) As you didn't quite say above, if IE or Netscape had implemented
CSS1 as speced, you could just use <DIV list-style-type='...'> and
<P display='list-item'>, but they haven't so you can't (yet);

2) The fact that you get validation error messages doesn't mean you didn't get
output -- this is XML, remember, so well-formed is good enough!  You
can indeed use the userfos.dtd facility (see xsl.dtd for an example)
to get rid of the error and improve validation of your style sheets.

ht
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