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[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: Default Rendering of HTML?
 > From: Shawn [mailto:sgrover@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > while researching how to > handle > HTML tags in XML, I came across a reference that used xsl:copy-of, instead > of > value-of. It occurred to me that what I was trying to do was place the > entire node into my output, so copy-of was what I should be using. So, I > changed the <xsl:value-of select="text"/> line of my XSL to read > <xsl:copy-of > select="text"/> - and suddenly my HTML began to work. > > I had two nodes that were to get rendered, but the first (which didn't > contain > HTML tags) didn't. I resolved this by removing the <xsl:output> tag I had > tried earlier. > > So, I have a working solution. But, I'm not sure if this is going to be > suitable in all cases with HTML tags embedded in XML, or if there is a > better > way of doing this. Any suggestions are appreciated. It seems as if you are not really clear on what you are trying to accomplish, and that's perhaps why you have been having some trouble. Apparently, you want to create an html file as the result of your transformation. You don't really have to worry about "rendering", just about producing the html that you intend. So the first thing is to insert an html element, along with suitable head and body elements. Sure, it is legal to omit the html, head, and even body elements in html, but never mind that, put them in anyway. Then you will be able to see if you are creating the right structure. Also, if you include an html element, the processor will realize that you want output method='html', even if you do not specifically say so. Then, things get fairly simple. If your source document has chunks of working html, insert them into the output using copy-of, as you discovered. Where your source document has content that does not fit that mold, you have to build it up bit by bit with templates. So a kind of prototypical stylesheet to produce html output could go like this (omitting some obvious boilerplate) - <xsl:output method='html'/> <xsl:template match='/'> <html> <head><title>xxxx</title> <xsl:call-template name='style'/> <xsl:call-template name='script'/> <!-- if you will have any javascript --/> </head> <body> </body> </html> </xsl:template> <xsl:template name='style'> <style type='text/css'> /* Put any embedded css style rules here */ </style> </xsl:template> Cheers, Tom P 
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