[oXygen-user] XML to HTML - a couple of questions

Sat Oct 11 10:41:31 CDT 2008

On Oct 11, 2008, at 11:34 AM, Peter Bradley wrote:
>
> When I do the transformation, I get this output (start):
>
> <html>
>   <head>
>      <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;  
> charset=utf-8">
>
>      <title>My Title</title>
>
> My question is, what is that meta tag?  Not only does it appear to  
> have
> been inserted without my say-so, but it's also invalid since it's not
> closed.

The XSL processor puts it in. It is not invalid HTML since that was  
your output method (which I think is also the default if you did not  
specify an output method and your root element name is 'html'). If you  
want XHTML and you must use XSL version 1, you need to use the output  
method xml. If you can use an XSL version 2 processor, you can use the  
output method xhtml which give you other benefits when outputting  
xhtml (no need to hack things like script, textarea, etc)

>
>
> The second question concerns the insertion of a DTD at the top of the
> page.  My Google-foo appears to have deserted me to the extent that I
> can't see any way of performing a transformation that puts a DTD at  
> the
> top of the HTML page.  Unsurprisingly, I want to have this:
>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

This is also on the xsl:output:

http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#output

Specifically the attributes:
doctype-public = string
doctype-system = string

but, again with XSL 1.0, you need to output xml, not html.

BTW, these are general XSL questions and should be asked on mulberry's  
xsl list.

best,
-Rob

>
>
> ... as the first line in the result document.
>
> Apologies if these are  silly questions, but I just haven't been  
> able to
> find any answers.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
> Peter
>
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