Oxygen XML Forum

Posted: **Tue Aug 31, 2004 9:57 pm**

Not sure if this is an XSL question or an Oxygen question, but...

My XSL contains this:

<xsl:output method="xml" doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"/>
<form>
...
</form>

When I generate XHTML, I get this:

<form xmlns="">
...
</form>

This xhtml won't validate, complaining that this attribute isn't supported for this tag. It makes no difference if I manually paste something into the empty quotes.

Any thoughts?

Willis Morse

Posted: **Tue Aug 31, 2004 11:16 pm**

Hi,

The sample stylesheet from your message is not valid, the form should be inside an xsl:template, maybe you wanted something like:

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

  <xsl:output method="xml" doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"/>

  <xsl:template match="/">

    <form> ...</form>

  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

I cannot reproduce the output though neither with Xalan nor with Saxon. Please conside posting a complete cut down sample and let us know what XSLT processor you are using to perform the transformation.

The result document you are getting is equivalent with
<form>
...
</form>
if the namespaces are taken into account but the DTDs are not namespace aware thus the error you see.

Best Regards,
George