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Subject: Re: Transforming XML to XML
From: Zeljko Rajic <Zeljko.Rajic@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 10:40:45 +0100
transform xml to another xml
Matt,

thanks for your hint. It worked! :)
Doing some tests I found out that Xalan also takes the first child element of
the root element to find out about the document type. So for example if the
first child element is a <html> it automatically omits the "<?xml ... ?>" XML
declaration. This is what confused me a little ! 

Greetings
Zeljko Rajic



Matt Gushee wrote:
> 
> Zeljko Rajic writes:
> 
>  > I'm a newbie to XML/XSL so maybe my question may look trivial:
> 
> Well, the solution is simple, but not at all obvious.
> 
>  > How do I transform a XML document into another XML document? My problem actually
>  > is to write a XSL transformation rule that creates the XML docuement
>  > description: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>  >
>  > I've tried to following XSL syle sheet:
>  >
>  > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>  > <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>  > xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
>  >
>  >      <xsl:template match="/">
>  >              <xsl:processing-instruction name="xml">version="1.0"
>  > encoding="UTF-8"</xsl:processing-instruction>
> 
> Ah, an easy mistake to make! The XML declaration looks and smells like
> a processing instruction, but it is not a processing instruction.
> 
>  >      </xsl:template>
>  >
>  > </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> Instead, try this:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet
>     version="1.0"
>     xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>     xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
> 
> ==> <xsl:output method="xml" encoding="UTF-8"?/>  <==
> 
>     <xsl:template match="/">
>         ....
> 
> Don't forget to put something in that first template (like
> '<xsl:apply-templates/>') to kick off further processing.
> 
> Best of luck.
> 
> Matt Gushee
> 
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