Re: need help with xhtml output

> 1. Outputting character entities.

there is no standard way to do this in XSL 1 (XSL2 draft has just
introduced a suggested possibility) Fortunately though you don't need to
do it as every conforming xhtml system to which you are going to pass
the result will understand the character data or character references
and doesn't need the entities.


> 2. Forcing a close tag for elements

Usual advice is to make sure there is some white space in the element
content.

> </xsl:text></script>" seems like such a hack. Is there a better way?

No, although it is possible to automatically transform an html
generating stylesheet to an xhtml one, see the html2xhtml.xsl stylesheet
available in 
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-MathML2-20030411/mathml-source.zip

> All the elements that the template headers inserts get an extraneous
> xmlns="" attribute. What is the best way to deal with that?

You need to generate elements in the xhtml namespace not no-namespace.
The above stylesheet modifies all literal result elements and
xsl:element instructions in the original stylesheet to make sure they
default to xhtml. But normally if your html generating stylesheet
is using literal result elements, you just need to stick
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
onto teh xsl:stylesheet top level element and they will all default into
xhtml.



David

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