Re: [xsl] Understanding why <tag></tag> is the way it is (wa

On 04/08/07, G. Ken Holman <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> MSXML modifies its behaviour when the stylesheet literal
> result element is in the HTML namespace.
Your finding is a big step forward in understanding various MSXML quirks,
thank you!

> But still MSXML is going beyond the specification by noting the
> choice of empty element syntax used by an XML instance.  Stylesheet
> writers cannot depend on this in the general case as it is an MSXML quirk.
Agreed! I use XSLT 1.0 only for client-side, browser initiated transformations
(using XSLT 2.0 Saxon otherwise) and tend to ignore other configurations. In
the future I will be more careful to state this in my assertions.

Manfred


On 04/08/07, G. Ken Holman <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 2007-08-03 22:58 +0200, Manfred Staudinger wrote:
> >On 03/08/07, G. Ken Holman <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > t:\ftemp>xslt-msxsl manfred.xsl manfred.xsl con
> > > <body>
> > > <div style="display: none"></div>
> > > <div style="display: none"></div>
> > > </body>
> >In my test the last div is serialized as <div style="display: none" /> !
> >
> > > Why do you think the serialization by MSXML of the two is the same?
> >My turn, sure.
>
> :{)}
>
> >I've set up a test at...
>
> Thank you ... by downloading your test I found the difference.
>
> >Thinking about possible causes, what version of MSXML do you use?
>
> It isn't a difference the version of the MSXML processor ... the
> difference turns out to be in the stylesheet markup.  This took a
> while to narrow down, but the example below shows that MSXML modifies
> its behaviour when the stylesheet literal result element is in the
> HTML namespace.  There is only a one-line difference between
> manfred.xsl and manfred3.xsl, that being the namespace declaration.
>
> So we were both right about our respective tests ... we were just
> comparing apples and oranges.
>
> But still MSXML is going beyond the specification by noting the
> choice of empty element syntax used by an XML instance.  Stylesheet
> writers cannot depend on this in the general case as it is an MSXML quirk.
>
> An interesting exercise, Manfred ... thank you.
>
> . . . . . . . . . . . . Ken
>
> t:\ftemp>type manfred.xsl
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
>                   version="1.0">
>
> <xsl:output method="html"/>
>
> <xsl:template match="/">
>     <body>
>       <div style="display: none"></div>
>       <div style="display: none"/>
>     </body>
> </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> t:\ftemp>xslt-msxsl manfred.xsl manfred.xsl con
> <body>
> <div style="display: none"></div>
> <div style="display: none"></div>
> </body>
>
> t:\ftemp>type manfred3.xsl
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
>                  xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";
>                  version="1.0">
>
> <xsl:output method="html"/>
>
> <xsl:template match="/">
>     <body>
>       <div style="display: none"></div>
>       <div style="display: none"/>
>     </body>
> </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> t:\ftemp>xslt-msxsl manfred3.xsl manfred3.xsl con
> <body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>
> <div style="display: none"></div>
> <div style="display: none"/>
> </body>
>
> t:\ftemp>
>
>
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