RE: XSLT transform to HTML - different output using X

My guess is that the XSLT processor you are invoking from VB6 is an XSLT 1.0
processor, whereas XMLSpy includes an XSLT 2.0 processor.

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig Whisenhunt [mailto:craig@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 09 May 2006 23:53
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  XSLT transform to HTML - different output 
> using XMLSpy vs VB6
> 
> I developed a stylesheet using XMLSpy and am now trying to 
> use the XSLT file within VB6 to transform XML to HTML docs.
> 
> Everything works beautifully in XMLSpy but the results of the 
> tranformation using VB6 are curious (and not acceptable). I'm 
> not sure where to start so here goes. There are a few issues:
> 
> Here's the first part of my stylesheet:
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
> xmlns:fn="http://www.w3.org/2004/07/xpath-functions"
> xmlns:xdt="http://www.w3.org/2004/07/xpath-datatypes">
> <xsl:preserve-space elements="*"/>
> <xsl:output method="html" encoding="ISO-8859-1" 
> use-character-maps="cm1"
> indent="yes"/>
> <xsl:output 
> doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd" /> 
> <xsl:output doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" /> 
> <xsl:character-map name="cm1"> <xsl:output-character 
> character="&#160;" string="&amp;nbsp;"/> </xsl:character-map>
> 
> I don't fully understand all these declarations but borrowed 
> them from another stylesheet example.
> 
> The character map is there to force the &nbsp; to be written 
> in the HTML.
> One of the main differences in how XMLSpy renders vs VB6 is the &nbsp;
> 
> VB6 outputs a blank space while XMLSpy renders a &nbsp; I 
> need the &nbsp; for formatting and to hold open empty table cells.
> 
> Any advice on the declarations at the top of my stylesheet 
> would be appreciated. Also any knowledge of VB6 in this 
> regard would be helpful.
> 
> I'd be happy to post some of the templates but I don't think 
> that is the problem since XMLSpy renders wonderfullly.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> -Craig