RE: generating broken html?

It's possible that with MSXML you are serializing using the DOM serializer,
not the XSLT serializer, which would mean the method="html" is ignored. This
would account for the "prettier" indentation - it's hard to produce really
nice indented output in HTML because there are so many places where
whitespace is significant.

Mike Kay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Francis
> Norton
> Sent: 23 November 2001 12:15
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  generating broken html?
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to reformat a substantial dreamweaver-generated
> HTML file by
> using tidy to clean it up and convert it to XML, and then the
> following
> trivial transform:
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
> 	<xsl:output method="html" indent="yes"/>
> 	<xsl:template match="/">
> 		<xsl:copy-of select="." />
> 	</xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> to turn it back into nicely indented HTML.
>
> When I do this transform using msxsl.exe with any version of
> msxml (3.0
> or 4.0) the HTML is beautifully indented but doesn't work with IE5.5.
> The problems I've identified so far are to do with closing empty
> elements that are perhaps not normally empty - eg:
>
> <script type="text/javascript" language="Javascript"
> src="shared/js/userconfig1.js"/>
>
> and
>
> <div class="titlebar" id="titlebar"/>
>
> - both of these need to be closed as
>
> 	></script>
>
> and
>
> 	></div>
>
> to work.
>
> Once I've fixed these the browser no longer shows as blank,
> but I still
> can't see any text.
>
> Saxon gives me working HTML but the indentation is not as
> pretty and is
> so different (eg line breaks) that it is very hard to diff the two.
>
> Has anyone had similar problems, and if so did they come up with an
> msxsl solution or did they find another xslt processor which could do
> similar indenting?
>
> Francis.
>
>
>
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