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 Got it, thanks Wendell. My output method is "xml", my doctype is: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> Net result, valid xhtml content and no auto-generated bad meta content-type tag. To be safe, should I add: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> To my <head> tag? If so, is there such thing as an "xhtml" content type? Thanks, Karl.. On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Karl, > > At 03:31 PM 5/20/2010, you wrote: >> >> This seems like such an ancient topic, but here it goes... >> >> I have the following: >> <xsl:output indent="yes" doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" >> doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"/> >> >> The resulting HTML document has a bad content-type meta tag: >> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> >> >> (It is not closed) > > This is not "bad" unless by "bad" you mean "not XML". And HTML is not XML. > > HTML -- more to the point, the variant of HTML your stylesheet believes it > should produce -- is an application of SGML, in which this particular tag > (and indeed, any other tags for elements declared in its DTD as EMPTY, such > as 'img' and 'br' and 'hr') need not be matched with a corresponding close > tag. > >> I've tried various doctypes and the results seem to be the same. How >> do I solve this? > > If you want XML syntax, you need to configure your XSLT processor to give it > to you. > > This can generally be done quite easily: > > <xsl:output indent="yes" method="xml"/> > >> Also, while on the subject, what doctype do you use, and why? > > This very much depends on the local requirements. > > If using the doctype that you have cited (PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN), > however, I probably would *not* use method="xml", but instead method="html" > (which is what you are getting, probably because your processor infers from > the name of the document element of your result, 'html', that this is what > you want). This is because the HTML 4.01 DTD is an SGML DTD not an XML DTD, > and W3C-conformant HTML 4.01 processors do not expect those particular tags > to be closed. > > If I knew, on the other hand, that I needed the output to be well-formed > XML, I would probably use method="xml" to ensure as much, along with an > XHTML doctype. > > I hope this helps -- > Wendell > > > > ====================================================================== > Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com > 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 > Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 > Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML > ====================================================================== 
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