html stylesheet to xhtml stylesheet converter...

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

The following transformation takes as input an XSL stylesheet that
writes HTML and produces one that writes something that with a bit of
luck is XHTML.

I want to use this for real on the MathML specification (a draft of
which we released yesterday: http://www.w3.org/TR/MathML2/  )
so if anybody has any suggestions for improvements I'd be most
grateful. It's not well tested, as I wrote most of it this morning.

David

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html2xhtml.xsl:  HTML to XHTML  XSL stylesheet converter
========================================================

 Copyright 1999 David Carlisle NAG Ltd


The following stylesheet takes as input an XSL stylesheet that writes
HTML, and produces a stylesheet that writes XML that hopefully matches the
XHTML specification. (It does not check that the output matches the DTD.)
It does the following things:

* Adds a DOCTYPE giving FPI and URL for one of the three flavours
  of XHTML1. (Transitional unless the original stylesheet asked for
  Frameset or Strict HTML.)

* Writes all HTML elements and attributes as lowercase, with 
  elements being written in the XHTML namespace.

* Writes <BR> as <br class="html-compat"/> . (Appendix C recommends
  <br /> rather than <br/> but an XSL stylesheet has no control
  over the concrete syntax of the linearisation, so adding an attribute
  is probably the best that can be done. (No attribute is added if
  the element already has attributes.)

* Changes the output method from html to xml in xsl:output
  (and also in the xt:document extension element).

* Forces a line break after opening tags of non empty elements to ensure
  that they are never written with XML empty syntax, so
  <p>
  </p>
  not
  <p/>

* Copies any elements from XSL or XT namespaces through to the new
  stylesheet.

-->

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
                xmlns:axsl="/dev/null"
                xmlns:xt="http://www.jclark.com/xt";
                xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";
                version="1.0"
                >
<xsl:namespace-alias stylesheet-prefix="axsl" result-prefix="xsl"/>

<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>

<xsl:template match="xsl:*|xt:*">
<xsl:copy>
  <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
  <xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="xsl:output|xt:document">
<xsl:copy>
  <xsl:attribute name="method">xml</xsl:attribute>
  <xsl:choose>
  <xsl:when test="contains(@doctype-public,'Frameset')">
    <xsl:attribute name="doctype-public">
     <xsl:text>-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Frameset//EN</xsl:text>
    </xsl:attribute>
    <xsl:attribute name="doctype-system">
       <xsl:text>http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-frameset.dtd</xsl:text>
    </xsl:attribute>
  </xsl:when>
  <xsl:when test="contains(@doctype-public,'Strict')">
    <xsl:attribute name="doctype-public">
     <xsl:text>-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN</xsl:text>
    </xsl:attribute>
    <xsl:attribute name="doctype-system">
       <xsl:text>http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd</xsl:text>
    </xsl:attribute>
  </xsl:when>
  <xsl:otherwise>
    <xsl:attribute name="doctype-public">
     <xsl:text>-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN</xsl:text>
    </xsl:attribute>
    <xsl:attribute name="doctype-system">
       <xsl:text>http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd</xsl:text>
    </xsl:attribute>
  </xsl:otherwise>
  </xsl:choose>
  <xsl:attribute name="indent">yes</xsl:attribute>
  <xsl:copy-of select="@*[not(
      name(.)='method' or
      name(.)='doctype-public' or
      name(.)='doctype-system' or
      name(.)='indent'
      )  ]"/>
  <xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="*|xsl:element">
<xsl:variable name="n">
  <xsl:choose>
  <xsl:when test="self::xsl:element">
    <xsl:value-of  select="translate(@name,
                   'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ', 
                   'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz')"/>
  </xsl:when>
  <xsl:otherwise>
    <xsl:value-of  select="translate(local-name(.),
                   'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ', 
                   'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz')"/>
  </xsl:otherwise>
  </xsl:choose>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:element
  name="{$n}"
   namespace="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>
  <xsl:for-each select="self::*[not(self::xsl:element)]/@* |
                       self::xsl:element/@use-attribute-sets">
    <xsl:attribute name="{translate(local-name(.),
                   'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ', 
                   'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz')}">
     <xsl:value-of select="."/>
    </xsl:attribute>

  </xsl:for-each>
  <xsl:choose>
  <xsl:when test="not(@*) and ($n='br' or $n='hr')">
    <xsl:attribute name="class">html-compat</xsl:attribute>
  </xsl:when>
  <xsl:otherwise>
   <xsl:text>&#xA;</xsl:text>
  <xsl:apply-templates/>
  </xsl:otherwise>
  </xsl:choose>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>


</xsl:stylesheet>




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