Yes, it is illegal because you are attempting to do exactly what the error
message is complaining about. You are trying to output ill-formed XML. the
problem is not closing a template inside a table, but lies in closing a
template inside a table which has been opened outside the table, here is a
short illustration:
<xsl:template>
<table>
</xsl:template>
</table>
As you see, the closing tag </xsl:template> does not match the opening tag
<table>, and that's what the Saxon parser is complaining about. You will have
to re-think your design so that the opening and closing tags match. In other
words, you must output well-formed XML.
This topic has been recently been discussed at length in the thread concering
the advisability of using disable-output-escaping (d-o-e) which you probably
have seen. The anti-d-o-e faction (I must count myself among them) generally
attributes this kind of error to a programmer's clinging to procedural
programming pratices (trying to emit XML tags instead of nodes) rather than
embracing the functional or declarative model upon which XSLT is based.
Consider SQL vs. Java. In the former you tell the database what you want and
let the database engine figure out exactly how to get it. With the latter, you
concern yourself with loops and branching and output, and etc.
XSLT is more along the lines of SQL, than those of Java. I think this is one of
those ideas where one day, a lightbulb suddenly goes on in your head and you
say, "Ohhh, now I get it!" It can be rough sledding until that happens.
--
Charles Knell
cknell(_at_)onebox(_dot_)com - email
-----Original Message-----
From: "Hubert Holtz" <Turnhose_alt(_at_)gmx(_dot_)net>
Sent: Sat, 04 Jan 2003 14:53:26 +0100
To: XSL-List(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] closing a template inside a table, forbidden?
Hy,
is this forbidden ?
-----CODE-----
<xsl:template match="article">
<table>
..
</table>
<!-- ************SECT1 PROCESSING CONTENT ************** -->
<table width="610" height="48" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"
border="0" id="sectBackground">
<xsl:apply-templates select="./title[(_at_)lang= $lang]"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="sect1[(_at_)lang = $lang or
not(@lang)]"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="article/sect1[(_at_)lang= $lang or
not(@lang)]">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</table>
----CODE----
I get the following error:
The element type "table" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "".
description org.apache.cocoon.ProcessingException: Exception in creating
Transform Handler: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The element type "table" must
be terminated by the matching end-tag "".
And if it is forbidden, why?
Thanks.
Steve
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