You'll probably find that harmless-looking XHTML DTD is declaring a
default namespace for you - a practice which should be punishable by
flogging.
Michael Kay
Software AG
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
[mailto:owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com] On Behalf Of
Peter Flynn
Sent: 31 October 2002 22:34
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] Reprocessing XHTML with XSLT
I've either lost those last few remaining neurons, or I've
missed something rather important in the documentation (it's
the first time I've needed to do an XML-to-XML transformation
in anger, too :-)
I had a moderately well-formed HTML file from a user which I
ran through Tidy -asxml to turn it into WF XHTML. I mended
some errors* and it's now valid. I then started writing some
XSLT (below) to turn it into the required XML markup.
But running it through xt or Cocoon only fires the document
root template and nothing else, so I get output with the data
content enclosed in the specified root element tags
(<modules>...</modules>) and the rest is dogfood -- as if I
had not specified any other templates. I've tried with both
the literal result elements and with <xsl:element> but the
same occurs.
Why is it failing to match the remaining templates? There
doesn't seem to be anything in Dave's FAQ or any of the books
I've got, which only cover XHTML *output*, so I'm making the
conclusion that I've missed something significant in the spec.
///Peter
--
Minimal example:
---------- test.xhtml
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"/dtds/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>some title</title>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<tr>
<td>stuff to ignore</td>
<td>more stuff</td>
</tr>
</table>
<h2>a heading</h2>
<p>just text</p>
</body>
</html>
---------- extract.xsl
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="xml"/>
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<modules>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</modules>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="html">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="head | table | p"/>
<xsl:template match="body">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="h2">
<module>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</module>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
---------- output
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<modules>some titlestuff to ignoremore stuffa headingjust
text</modules>
----------
* It appears that Tidy fails to convert NAME attributes which
are comprised of digits only to a suitable form beginning
with a letter when it outputs them as ID values, in order to
conform with being XML Names.
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