Subject: Re: breaking up <tags> is hard to do From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 17:22:13 GMT |
> Might it be possible to tweak the HTML output method of xsl > processors to output minimized markup or to drop the closing <TR> > tag in just before the opening of a new <TR>? well since several systems are supplied as source I suppose any tweaking is possible but this would seem a terribly bad thing to do. XSL output is a tree, It would be reasonable to have an html output method that used minimised markup where possible but it would _not_ do what you suggest The tree <TABLE> <TR></TR> <TD>row1, cell1</TD> <TD>row1, cell2</TD> <TR></TR> <TD>row2, cell1</TD> <TD>row2, cell2</TD> is just simply invalid: the td are not inside a row. If that markup were presented to an HTML system, a valid but different tree would be created by inferring extra rows around the TD (but leaving the empty rows there) Since it is a basic principle that parsing the output file produce the tree specified in the stylesheet, this would break the most fundamental design principles of xsl. If the system were to automatically get from there to something that was valid it would effectively mean the output tree had no correspondence to the result tree specified in the stylesheet, and I don't see how such a system would be workable (or documentable) David XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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