--- Marcel Ruff <ruff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> we have a XML document and want to add some formatting elements,
> like <bold> or better <b> which should show up in the generated HTML
> file.
> 
> How can we tell the XSL engine to stream such tags
> into the destination HTML file.

One way is to put the html tags in a separate namespace like this:

<doc xmlns="Whatever namespace is default"
     xmlns:html="xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"">
  <aTag>
    <html:p>
      A paragraph of text...
    </html:p>
  </aTag>
</doc>

and then use a template to pass through all of the html prefixed tags without
the prefix:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
                xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"
                exclude-result-prefixes="html">

... other templates ...

<xsl:template match="html:*">
    <xsl:element name="{local-name(.)}"><xsl:apply-templates/> 
	</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

That should do the trick.

Toivo Lainevool

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