You'll probably find that harmless-looking XHTML DTD is declaring a
default namespace for you - a practice which should be punishable by
flogging.
Michael Kay
Software AG
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Peter Flynn
> Sent: 31 October 2002 22:34
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Reprocessing XHTML with XSLT
>
>
> I've either lost those last few remaining neurons, or I've
> missed something rather important in the documentation (it's
> the first time I've needed to do an XML-to-XML transformation
> in anger, too :-)
>
> I had a moderately well-formed HTML file from a user which I
> ran through Tidy -asxml to turn it into WF XHTML. I mended
> some errors* and it's now valid. I then started writing some
> XSLT (below) to turn it into the required XML markup.
>
> But running it through xt or Cocoon only fires the document
> root template and nothing else, so I get output with the data
> content enclosed in the specified root element tags
> (<modules>...</modules>) and the rest is dogfood -- as if I
> had not specified any other templates. I've tried with both
> the literal result elements and with <xsl:element> but the
> same occurs.
>
> Why is it failing to match the remaining templates? There
> doesn't seem to be anything in Dave's FAQ or any of the books
> I've got, which only cover XHTML *output*, so I'm making the
> conclusion that I've missed something significant in the spec.
>
> ///Peter
> --
> Minimal example:
>
> ---------- test.xhtml
>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
> "/dtds/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
> <html>
> <head>
> <title>some title</title>
> </head>
> <body>
> <table>
> <tr>
> <td>stuff to ignore</td>
> <td>more stuff</td>
> </tr>
> </table>
> <h2>a heading</h2>
> <p>just text</p>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> ---------- extract.xsl
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> version="1.0">
>
> <xsl:output method="xml"/>
>
> <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
>
> <xsl:template match="/">
> <modules>
> <xsl:apply-templates/>
> </modules>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="html">
> <xsl:apply-templates/>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="head | table | p"/>
>
> <xsl:template match="body">
> <xsl:apply-templates/>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="h2">
> <module>
> <xsl:apply-templates/>
> </module>
> </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> ---------- output
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <modules>some titlestuff to ignoremore stuffa headingjust
> text</modules>
>
> ----------
> * It appears that Tidy fails to convert NAME attributes which
> are comprised of digits only to a suitable form beginning
> with a letter when it outputs them as ID values, in order to
> conform with being XML Names.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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