Re: Non-well-formed HTML in XSL

--- Ryan Neil Gillespie <scoobie at UDel dot Edu> wrote:

> 
> Thanks a lot for the previous help. Template matching makes more
> sense
> now.
> 
> I would like to print HTML that will (eventually) be well-formed.
> However,
> the XSL to display it is not well-formed and thus I get an error.
> What
> I
> need is a way to tell XSL to disregard the non-well-formedness of the
> HTML
> I'm writing.
> 
> --------
> some.xsl
> --------
> 
> <table>
> 
>   <tr><td>
>     <xsl:attribute name="rowspan">
>       <xsl:value-of select="count(meet)"/>
>     </xsl:attribute>
> 
>       <xsl:value-of select="../instructor"/>
>   </td>
> 
>   <xsl:for-each select="meet">
> 
>     <xsl:if test="ancestor::node()[position() != 1]">
>       </tr><tr>   # this is the problem
>     </xsl:if>
> 
>     <td>some info</td>
> 
>   </xsl:for-each>
> 
>   </tr>
> 
> </table>
> 
> --------
> What I want the HTML to look like
> --------
> <table>
> 
>   <tr>
>     <td rowspan="2">Johnson</td>
>     <td>some info</td>
>   </tr>
>   <tr>
>     <td>some info</td>
>   </tr>
> 
>   <tr>
>     <td rowspan="2">Galbraith</td>
>     <td>some info</td>
>   </tr>
> 
> </table>
> 
> ---------
> sample XML input
> ---------
> 
>       <course>
>         <title>Early Childhood Development</title>
>         <subject>EDUC</subject>
>         <number>104</number>
>         <section>010</section>
>         <instructor>Phillips</instructor>
> 
>         <meets>
>           <meet>
>             <format>LEC</format>
>             <building>SMI</building>
>             <room>205</room>
>             <days>MWF</days>
>             <starts>1100</starts>
>             <ends>1230</ends>
>           </meet>
> 
> 
> _ryan


Hi Ryan,

You should never try to output non-well-formed xml (and this is
possible in 99.9999% of all cases).

In this particular case instead of:

<tr><td>
    <xsl:attribute name="rowspan">
      <xsl:value-of select="count(meet)"/>
    </xsl:attribute>

      <xsl:value-of select="../instructor"/>
  </td>

  <xsl:for-each select="meet">

    <xsl:if test="ancestor::node()[position() != 1]">
      </tr><tr>   # this is the problem
    </xsl:if>

    <td>some info</td>

  </xsl:for-each>

  </tr>

use:

<tr>
  <td>
    <xsl:attribute name="rowspan">
      <xsl:value-of select="count(meet)"/>
    </xsl:attribute>

      <xsl:value-of select="../instructor"/>
  </td>

  <xsl:apply-templates select="meet"/>


</tr>


In case you could explain what exactly you're trying to do, many people
on this list will be able to show a correct solution.



=====
Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL

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