From: "Jimmy Cerra" <jimbolist(_at_)hotmail(_dot_)com>
To: <XSL-List(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>
Subject: Transforming the XSL-List archive into RSS 1.0
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 18:41:54 -0400
I subscribe to the XSL digest; however, I often find that there are a
lot of messages that I ignore. Since I use dial-up, the wasted
bandwidth contributes to a significant wait.
Furthermore I'm relatively new to XSL, so I decided to design a
stylesheet to transform the XSL-List archives into an RSS 1.0 file of
the last 12 or so hours (no descriptions; just titles and links in
sequential order by date) that I can automate. The project would be
educational as well as useful, I figure.
However, when I looked at the source of the list, I noticed that the
pages are served as the SGML-flavor of HTML. :-( XSL can't really work
with this because of the unbalanced tags (<li>, <br>, etcetera).
However, the pages do validate as HTML 4.01 Strict. How do I work
around the unfortunate format and convert it to sensible XML?
If there is no way, can I request that the list change the archives to
XHTML (or offer the XML-based format as an alternative)?
(Note that I'm using Saxon 7.6.)
--
Jimmy Cerra
] "XML is just syntax, and you can therefore
] use it any way you like." - Michael Kay
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