xsl:output and DOCTYPE declaration

marty · Post by **marty** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 8:47 am

Please tell me if this has already been answered - i have been trying to figure this out for days, and i have look through the forum briefly but not spotted what i need.

I wish to output (valid) xhtml

in my xsl stylesheet i have an xsl:output statement like this:

<xsl:output encoding="iso-8859-1" method="xhtml" indent="yes" doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
/>

oxygen gives the following output instead above my <html> element:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>

obviously, this doesn't make for valid xhtml

### so the question is: is this a problem with oxygen or me?

any advice greatly appreciated

regards

Marty[/b]

Post by **martinrowland** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 10:53 am

that was me before. i have a solution - seems the problem was me!

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

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 

      xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 

      xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">



   <xsl:output 

        omit-xml-declaration="no" method="xml"

        doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"

        doctype-system=

           "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd" 

        indent="no" encoding="iso-8859-1"/>



   <xsl:template match="/webpage">

      <html  xml:lang="en" >

         <xsl:apply-templates/>

      </html>

   </xsl:template>

       .

       .

       .

while produce

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" 

    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">

   <head>

       .

       .

       .

and the good news (for me at least) is that it all validates against
http://validator.w3.org/

but if anyone has a better way to do this, by all means let me know

cheers

marty

Post by **george** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 11:18 am

Hi Martin,

I was about to reply on your first post, so here it is:
Doctype declarations need also a system ID when you specify a public ID, therefore you will need to specify both doctype-public and doctype-system attributes in your xsl:output element.

See:
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#sec-external-ent

[75] ExternalID ::= 'SYSTEM' S SystemLiteral
| 'PUBLIC' S PubidLiteral S SystemLiteral

Also use method="xml" as both Xalan and Saxon that are integrated with oXygen do not know xhtml as output method.

Best Regards,
George

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