Re: [xsl] XHTML html validation

[Owen Rees <owen.rees@xxxxxx>]

--On Saturday, February 17, 2007 12:05:38 +0000 John Steel wrote:

> No, resin does the tranformation - I suspect I screwed up in trying to
> create a smaller example then, for which I sincerely apologise. The test
> is to view the source in the browser - if the browser transforms, you'd
> see the xml structure, if it was the server you'd just see formed html
> right?

The complexity of your overall system is causing some confusion. It seems 
that your server side engine reacts to a processing instruction somewhat 
like the one that is more often seen used for client/browser side 
processing.

The examples, when processed by a standalone XSLT 1.0 processor, show that 
you have namespace issues to deal with.

You have put your <faqlist> element into the XHTML namespace so the 
templates are not matching. You can either put it back into no namespace 
with <faqlist xmlns=""> or convert your templates to use the namespace.

The literal result elements such as <tr>...</tr> in the stylesheet are in 
no namespace, you must put them into the XHTML namespace if you want them 
to be recognised as XHTML.

You have specified xsl:output method="html" which is wrong for XHTML 
output, it must be method="xml" for an XSLT 1.0 processor but I doubt if 
that will give you Appendix C "HTML Compatibility" output.

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Owen Rees
Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK