The chances are that media-type has no effect on the output at all. Some
implementations may do something with it in some circumstances, for example
if they know that the stylesheet is generating the response to an HTTP
request.
The method attribute does strongly affect the content of the output.
If both are used then they should be consistent, for example it wouldn't
make much sense to set the media type to application/pdf if the output
method is html; but if the method is "text" then there are many different
media types that would make sense.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Ferrando [mailto:mikeferrando(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com]
Sent: 29 June 2005 15:18
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] @method ; @media-type
Friends,
I recently faced a stylesheet problem concerning the use of @method
and/or @media-type.
Although, I was able to resolve the problem, I was left thinking that
it did not seem clear to me how these attributes are used and what
effect they have on output.
1. If I am outputing a number of documents from one stylesheet, some
directly and others using saxon:output, how do these attributes
affect the unicode or elements (i.e, the html uses the @doctype
attributes)?
2. I know that SAXON will give the html tags correctly (taking off
the closing slash on IMG elements), but will this only effect the
html output?
3. Should these two variable always have the same value "xml |
text/xml" or "html" "text/html"? Should I mix them if I anticipate
character set issues (like glyphs instead of NCR or multibyte
strings) in the output.
4. Is it possible to see some examples of either xsl:output or
saxon:output elements for these kinds of transformations.
For example:
xml source > xslt stylesheet
>xml (direct)
>html (saxon:output)
>xml (saxon:output)
(Pawson probably has this on his site, but I missed it.)
My usual workflow is from xml source to other outputs instances (xml
and/or html).
Thanks,
Mike Ferrando
Library Technician
Library of Congress
Washington, DC
202-707-4454
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