Subject: Re: [xsl] specifying html doctypes using xslt literal result stylesheets From: "S. Alexander Jacobson" <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 17:38:58 -0400 (Eastern Standard Time) |
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Wendell Piez wrote: > >How do you specify an HTML doctype when using the > >XSLT "Literal Result Element as Stylesheet" > ><http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#result-element-stylesheet>? > > This feature of the language isn't actually all that widely used in my > experience (it's almost never asked about here, which indicates either it's > rarely used, or works so perfectly no one ever asks about it) -- hence, not > such a FAQ.... Perhaps it isn't widely used because it is broken...? Why is it in the spec? It is also in the 2.0 spec... > >You need an HTML DTD or else browsers won't render > >XHTML transitional output correctly.... > > > >If you can't do this, then the HTML examples in > >section 2.3 of the XSLT 1.0 spec are *very* > >misleading... > > Well, since XSLT 1.0 was finished and made it to Rec in 1999, and XHTML > first saw the light in 2000 ... and browsers have taken even longer to > catch up ... it's perhaps forgiveable if XSLT has failed to anticipate all > the challenges of deploying XHTML. XML was finished in 1998 and had DOCTYPE. They supported DOCTYPE in xsl:output so they obviously weren't ignoring it....They haven't depracated the literal result stylesheet in 2.0. This HAS TO BE possible. -Alex- ___________________________________________________________________ S. Alexander Jacobson Check out my new blog!!! 1-212-787-1914 voice http://alexjacobson.com XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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