Xalan's behavior is correct -- Sablotron is non-conformant. See the
following for more info:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-HTML-Output-Method
In particular:
"The html output method should not output an element differently from
the xml output method unless the expanded-name of the element has a null
namespace URI; an element whose expanded-name has a non-null namespace
URI should be output as XML. If the expanded-name of the element has a
null namespace URI, but the local part of the expanded-name is not
recognized as the name of an HTML element, the element should output in
the same way as a non-empty, inline element such as span."
Thus, any element with a non-null namespace URI must be output as XML.
Dave
Aaron Donovan
<aaronmdonovan@ear To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
thlink.net> cc: (bcc: David N
Bertoni/Cambridge/IBM)
Subject: xhtml to html
07/29/2002 10:00
AM
Please respond to
xalan-dev
We are in the process of transitioning to xml/xhtml, but due to some
browser and search software issues we are serving out only html not
xhtml. Currently, we use apache/php with Sablottron to transform our
xhtml to html with the following transform.
<?xml verion="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:output method="html" indent="yes" encoding="ISO-8859-1" />
<xsl:template match="xhtml:html"
xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; >
<xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
It works fine. I was looking to try cocoon for its caching, but the
transform in xalan results in xhtml. The trailing /> are not changed to
>. I have noticed that if I remove the namespace from the html tag it
works, but I'm not sure why. Any help would be appreciated.
