Subject: RE: output method html doesnt work with namespace in source tree
From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 22:08:52 -0000
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You are right, Saxon is getting this wrong. It's deciding whether to use
a closing tag based solely on the displayed name, not on the underlying
namespace.
Michael Kay
Software AG
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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Andrew Welch
> Sent: 17 December 2002 16:14
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> Subject: output method html doesnt work with namespace
> in source tree
>
>
>
> An interesting issue was raised by Christian Hujer over on
> xalan-j-users that might interest the list. Consider the source:
>
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="de">
> <head>
> <title>Test</title>
> </head>
> <body>
> <p>
> Line
> <br />
> Next Line
> </p>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> With this stylesheet:
>
> <xsl:transform
> version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
>
> <xsl:output method="html"/>
>
> <xsl:template match="@*|*">
> <xsl:copy>
> <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
> </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:transform>
>
> An identity transform that specifies an output method of
> html, applied to a source where all elements are in a
> non-null namespace. The usual suspect is the way <br /> is output:
>
> Xalan: <br/>
> Saxon: <br>
> MSXML4: <br></br>
>
> Now to quote the spec:
> (http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-HTML-Output-Method)
> 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.
>
> From that I would say Xalan conforms, Saxon doesnt and MSXML
> is confused... ;-)
>
>
> cheers
> andrew
>
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