Generate proper META tag in HTML output?

Post by **RBVanDyke** » Sat Aug 15, 2015 6:36 am

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Oxygen 17, XSLT transform with Saxon6.5.5 transformer.

I'm using a book's examples to get started with XSLT.

One of the examples is generating HTML output without a closing META tag.
■ When I open the HTML output in oXygen 17, oXygen informs me, element "title" not allowed here; expected the element end-tag.
■ If I simply use the editor to add a </meta> tag to the HTML by hand, the error is remedied.

I want to please learn the correct way to eliminate this sort of error.

The Source XML

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<?xml version="1.0"?>



<message>You can use literal result elements in stylesheets.</message>

The XSL

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

  <xsl:output method="html" indent="yes"/>



  <xsl:template match="/">

    <html>

      <head>

        <title>HTML Output</title>

      </head>

      <body>

        <p>

          <xsl:apply-templates/>

        </p>

      </body>

    </html>

  </xsl:template>



</xsl:stylesheet>

The HTML Output

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<html>

   <head>

      <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

        <!-- NOTE that imply adding a </meta> closing here eliminates the error -->

   

      <title>HTML Output</title>

   </head>

   <body>

      <p>You can use literal result elements in stylesheets.</p>

   </body>

</html>>

I'm new to this so not sure what the correct way is to remedy this problem. I'm surprised that the process doesn't automatically add the </meta> tag if it's required(?)

Cheers & thanks for your help,
Riley
SFO

Post by **adrian** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 5:02 pm

Hello,

Note that Oxygen doesn't validate HTML (SGML form), only XHTML (HTML in XML form).
Your meta tag is fine for HTML, so there is no problem there HTML-wise. It only needs to be closed for XHTML.

So the question is, what is the desired result, HTML or XHTML?

Regards,
Adrian

Post by **RBVanDyke** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 6:10 pm

Adrian:

Thanks for the help.

So the question is, what is the desired result, HTML or XHTML?

I generally produce XHTML. So making an inferential leap, is the solution to modify the output method to say ="xhtml" ala?

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<xsl:output method="xhtml" indent="yes"/>

I'm just guessing -- really. As I said, I'm just getting started running XSLT.

Thanks 'gain,
Riley
SFO

Post by **adrian** » Tue Aug 18, 2015 4:56 pm

Hi,

I'm afraid it's not that easy, because the XSL engine doesn't know about XHTML. You can see in the content completion list that for the method the possible values are 'xml', 'html' or 'text'. So, for XHTML you have to set the output method to 'xml':

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<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>

The side effect is that the meta tag will disappear from the output (it's no longer implied). So, if you still want it there, you'll have to manually add it in the stylesheet, inside the 'head' element:

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  <xsl:template match="/">

    <html>

      <head>

        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>

        <title>HTML Output</title>

      </head>

Regards,
Adrian

Post by **RBVanDyke** » Tue Aug 18, 2015 5:01 pm

Thank so much, Adrian, for your time and patience! Riley, SFO

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