Thanks to everyone who answered - you guys are great.

I found the error - in the servlet code I'm modifying,
the content type for the response object was being set
to "text/xml".  I missed that.  This was overriding
the setting in the xsl stylesheet, which is clearly
set to "html".  The link to:
http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/usagepatterns.html#outputprops
mentioned that the Writer will override the setting in
the xsl file, so that's why I started looking for it.

Thanks again for the help - and sorry for the trouble.
 I hope this thread helps someone.

Now that Mozilla knows its getting html, I've removed
the omit-meta-tag line from the xsl, and it's handling
the automatically inserted meta tag fine now.

Thanks,
Paul Warner


--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> 
>      Is the output of your transform supposed to be
> XML or HTML?  If the 
> output method is html, an XSLT processor should
> output a META tag as part 
> of the content of an HTML HEAD element.  Because
> META is an empty HTML 
> element, it's written using the empty-tag syntax of
> HTML - namely:
> 
>   <META attr=val attr=val ... >
> 
> as opposed to the XML empty-tag syntax:
> 
>   <META attr=val attr=val ... />
> 
> 
>      It sounds like the output of your
> transformation is an HTML document 
> that is being treated by Mozilla as an XML input
> document, for some 
> reason.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Henry
>
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> Henry Zongaro      Xalan development
> IBM SWS Toronto Lab   Tie Line 969-6044;  Phone
> (905) 413-6044
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Paul Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 03/04/2003 05:38 PM
> 
>  
>         To:     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>         cc: 
>         Subject:        Added META tag breaks
> Mozilla
> 
>  
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I get this error when running a simple transform in
> a
> servlet:
> 
> XML Parsing Error: mismatched tag. Expected:
> </META>.
> Location:
> http://localhost:8080/diaries/servlet/ParseDiaries
> Line Number 18, Column 3:
> </HEAD>
> --^
> 
> Xalan is adding a META tag without adding a close -
> and it's refusing to display in Mozilla.  I tried
> inserting a </META> close in the xsl stylesheet, but
> that bombs of course.  How can I suppress that META
> tag?  Or force it to add the </META>? 
> Interestingly,
> if I add my own meta tag with it's own close tag,
> Xalan will remove my </META> close tag then add it's
> own META tag (without close) just ahead of mine. 
> Which leaves two identical META tags, neither with
> close tags, and this of course generates the same
> error.
> 
> I looked for information on this in the archives and
> in Google, and I can see it's part of the spec to
> add
> this tag - but no one says how to suppress it or
> force
> it to be a complete tag with a close.
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> Paul Warner
> 
> 
> 

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