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This is awsoeme ! I didnt think it would be this easy. I had tried it in my own program and it didnt work (now I need to investigate why, probably overriding the serializer settings) But if I try it in Stylus Studio it works. Now I'm going to try to see if I can do this just with mucking with the serializer. Thank you ! Input: <?xml version="1.0"?> <html> <body> <H1>Title</H1> <p>paragraph</p> <p/> <img src=""foo.jpg"/> <hr/> <p/> <unknown/> </body> </html> XSLT: <?xml version="1.0"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output method="html" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/> <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:copy-of select="."/> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> Output: <html> <body> <H1>Title</H1> <p>paragraph</p> <p></p> <img src=""foo.jpg"> <hr> <p></p> <unknown></unknown> </body> </html> David A. Lee dlee@calldei.com http://www.calldei.com http://www.xmlsh.org 812-482-5224 Michael Kay wrote: D2CA2D72BCFE47A7A5707D8D6DF0AD65@Sealion" type="cite">Can't quite see what the problem is. The standard HTML output method in XSLT should work just fine. It should also be easy enough to use the serializer from an XSLT engine without actually needing to do a transformation - but the details depend on your platform. Regards, Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/ http://twitter.com/michaelhkay-----Original Message----- From: David A. Lee [mailto:dlee@calldei.com] Sent: 23 November 2009 13:05 To: XML Developers List Subject: [xml-dev] XML to "HTML" I'm faced with the 'interesting' request of the web team to produce HTML not XHTML. The request came to encode empty elements like <BR/> as <BR> (and <HR/> as <HR>) The rationale is that they are trying for maximum browser compatibility and CSS style capabilities. Although they could not actually point to an actual current case where using XTHML syntax breaks things, nonetheless they are insisting on not using it, "just in case" , "for maximimal conformity". They also requested that if I use a tag that takes bodies but the body is empty to not write it as <tag/> Example <P/> should be written as <P></P> .... although I think I can waffle on this one. So I'm tasked now with having to convert reasonably good HTML into 'perfect' HTML mainly fixing up these empty tags. Any suggestions ? The proposal from the web team was "Just use perl to do regex replacements" ... Ug. I'm not going to use perl. But I might resort to the equivlent of using Java regex replacements on the final output phase. But maybe there is a 'better' way to do this ? I'm not enough familiar with XSLT to know but it does have an "html" mode ... will it do this kind of thing ? I'm hoping I don't need to write my own serializer and have to actcually *parse* the 'HTML' to generate these reqirements ... so maybe a regex is the best fit ? I'd love to run it through a trivial xquery or xslt filter in "make the web team happy" mode ... Other suggestions welcome. -- David A. Lee dlee@calldei.com http://www.calldei.com http://www.xmlsh.org 812-482-5224 ______________________________________________________________ _________ XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS to support XML implementation and development. To minimize spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@lists.xml.org subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@lists.xml.org List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php |