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RE: xslt & doctype problem

Subject: RE: xslt & doctype problem
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 08:52:26 +0100
xslt match wildcard
The XHTML DTD declares a default namespace, in the guise of a defaulted
attribute value for the <html> element. Not a nice thing to do, because its
effect is to put all the unprefixed elements in your source document into a
namespace. This means they will not match unprefixed names used as match
patterns in your stylesheet.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glyph [mailto:glyph@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 17 October 2005 02:17
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  xslt & doctype problem
> 
> I have a problem whereby if I include an xhtml doctype 
> declaration in my
> 
> html then my xslt templates always match the wildcard.
> 
> Ive constructed a simple demonstration of a problem Im 
> having, hoping a 
> sage older hand can tell me where Ive gone wrong.
> It includes a simple transform, and two xhtml files which 
> have two minor 
> differences: in the second I include the DOCTYPE declaration, and can 
> thus use the nbsp by name.
> 
> If I process them with xalan 2.7 (I had similar problems with 
> msxml, and 
> switched because I hoped xalan might be different) the 'head' 
> and 'body' 
> tags in the second file is always matched by the wildcard template.
> 
> java.exe -classpath %CLASSPATH% org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process -IN 
> dummy.html -XSL dummy-clean.xslt
> 
> java.exe -classpath %CLASSPATH% org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process -IN 
> dummy2.html -XSL dummy-clean.xslt
> 
> Hoping its something stupid (and thus easy to fix)
> -G.
> 
> ----- clean.xslt ---------------------------------
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> 
> <xsl:transform version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
> 
> <xsl:output
> method="html"
> version="4.0"
> encoding="iso-8859-1" indent="yes"
> omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
> 
> <!-- start at root of document -->
> <xsl:template match="/">
>    <xsl:message terminate="no">
>        Trace: root -<xsl:value-of select="name()" />-
>    </xsl:message>
>    <html>
>        <xsl:apply-templates select="*" />
>    </html>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="html">
>    <xsl:message terminate="no">
>        Trace: html
>    </xsl:message>
> <xsl:copy>
>    <xsl:apply-templates select="*" />
> </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="head">
>    <xsl:message terminate="no">
>        Trace: head
>    </xsl:message>
> <xsl:copy>
>    <xsl:if test="not(title)">
>    <title> No Title Given </title>
>    </xsl:if>
>    <xsl:apply-templates />
> </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="body">
>    <xsl:message terminate="no">
>        Trace: body
>    </xsl:message>
> <xsl:copy>
>    <h1>
>        <!-- potentially empty header -->
>        <xsl:copy-of select="../head/title" />
>    </h1>
>    <xsl:apply-templates mode="inner" />
> </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <!-- copy generic nodes -->
> <xsl:template match="*">
> <xsl:copy>
>    <xsl:copy-of select="@*" />
>    <xsl:message terminate="no">
>        Trace: generic -<xsl:value-of select="name()" />-
>    </xsl:message>
>    <xsl:apply-templates />
> </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <!-- copy generic nodes without trace -->
> <xsl:template mode="inner" match="*">
> <xsl:copy>
>    <xsl:copy-of select="@*" />
>    <xsl:apply-templates mode="inner" />
> </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> </xsl:transform>
> ------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> ----dummy.html--------------------------
> <html>
> <head>
>  <meta name="fish" value="Carp" />
> </head>
> <body>
>  <h1>carp</h1>
>  <p>Im not going to harp on about carp</p>
>  <p>Just going to include a simple &#160;</p>
> </body>
> </html>
> ------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> ----dummy2.html--------------------------
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
> 
> <html>
> <head>
>  <meta name="fish" value="Carp" />
> </head>
> <body>
>  <h1>carp</h1>
>  <p>Im not going to harp on about carp</p>
>  <p>Just going to include a simple &nbsp;</p>
> </body>
> </html>
> ------------------------------------------

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