No DOCTYPE in HTML output of Docbook document

Post by **cshare88** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:59 pm

When I transform a Docbook document to HTML the resulting file contains no DOCTYPE information. How do I set up the transformation to generate that line?

Post by **sorin_ristache** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 5:35 pm

Hello,

You have two solutions:

- use the DocBook stylesheet for XHTML output which generates a DOCTYPE declaration for XHTML 1.0 Transitional;

- create a simple customization layer for generating the desired DOCTYPE declaration. For example the following customization layer

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">

    <xsl:import href="file:/C:/Program Files/Oxygen 6.2/frameworks/docbook/xsl/html/docbook.xsl"/>

    <xsl:output doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"/>

</xsl:stylesheet>

generates the DOCTYPE delaration of a HTML 4.01 document.

Regards,
Sorin