RE: AS-IS Output in XSL

Subject: RE: AS-IS Output in XSL
From: zuzmi@xxxxxxxxxxx (Z. Uzmi)
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 23:26:40 -0700
>From XSL file's point of view (which I am assuming is being parsed by DOM or
SAX parser), anything between angle brackets is "considered" a tag and needs
a closing tag, or a slash at the end. The reason I used that terminology is
just to make the question clear, and it worked :-). Anyways, here is the
solution that I found after some experimentation with Xalan-J for the
benefit of others.

<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">
&lt;!DOCTYPE blah blah blah&gt;
</xsl:text>

zartash

> > I am trying to do an XLS Transformation and in the output
> > file I want a non-closing tag to appear as follows:
> >
> > <!DOCTYPE something something_else_but_not_an_attribute blah blah>
> >
> Firstly, your terminology is way out, there is no such thing as a
> "non-closing tag" and you seem to be confused between an element start tag
> and a document type declaration. The only similarity is that both
> use angle
> brackets as delimiters.
>
> Secondly, there is no clean way of outputting a document type declaration
> from an XSLT stylesheet. There is a dirty way of doing it, use
>
> <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">
> <[CDATA[<!DOCTYPE thing thing>]]>
> </xsl:text>
>
> Mike Kay
>
>
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>


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