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AFAIK there is no way around this. XSLT is an implementation of XML and the content of an XSLT document must respect XML standards to compile.

Fix your HTML to XHTML formatting.

annakata 2009-05-27 08:32:07

Well, i don't unterstand this... the <img>-tag without closing slash IS XHTML1.0 compliant but messes with xml-node architecture in the same time... i mean, everbody using XSLT to generate HTML would have this problem...

David 2009-05-27 08:51:49

(Clarified) Not true - see: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#h-4.6

annakata 2009-05-27 09:09:32

No, an unclosed img element is never valid in xhtml; it must be either <img.../> or <img...>...</img>

Marc Gravell 2009-05-27 09:37:25

An unclosed *anything* is invalid - it's just that empty elements have two ways to implement closure.

annakata 2009-05-27 10:02:21

Yeah, you're right. Thanks!

David 2009-05-27 10:04:45

That was sensible answer .. so +1

infant programmer 2009-12-12 06:01:04

Answer 2

A:

You either have to make the HTML inside the XSLT XML-compliant (which is still valid HTML), or if you really have to have the HTML be not XML-compliant, encapsulate the html in a CDATA block.

For instance:

<xsl:template .... >
    <![CDATA[
        <img src='...' >
    ]]>
</xsl:template>

Note that this is very ugly, and you would probably be better off making your HTML XML-compliant.

Mario Menger 2009-05-27 08:38:50

CDATA won't render the tag out though, it'll be rendered as "<img src='...'>"

annakata 2009-05-27 08:43:19

Good point. I now remember doing something very dodgy with output-escaping to get around that, but I clearly blocked that out.

Mario Menger 2009-05-27 09:36:02

Answer 3

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What do you want to output? html or xhtml? You always write the xslt as valid xml:

<img src="somepath" ... />

or

<img src="somepath{withvalues}" ... />

But you use the xsl:output to control it; if you want html (i.e. ) then you would use:

<xsl:output method="html" ... />

(note no "x" in the above) - or:

<xsl:output method="xml" ... />

AFAIK, "xhtml" is not a valid option for xsl:output/@method, since it is already covered by "xml". You should also note the subtle default behaviour if you don't specify an xsl:output/@method depends on the top element (i.e. whether it starts <html>...</html> or not).

Marc Gravell 2009-05-27 09:32:04

fwiw, xhtml output is produced by output="xml" with appropriate doctype-system and doctype-public attributes to fix the type

annakata 2009-05-27 10:31:40

Answer 4

A:

XHTML is as the name X implies XML img tags or any other none closed tags is not XHTML-strict compliant. However to easy transition from HTML to XHTML several levels of "strict"-ness is available, some of them not being XML compliant.

if you rewrite your HTML to XHTML-strict you will have no problem

Rune FS 2009-05-27 10:13:44

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