Re: [xml-dev] Polyglot Markup - serializer questions

[Oliver Hallam <oliver@xqsharp.com>]

On 08/07/2010 17:37, David wrote:

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Does following this standard imply that we need new output methods for serializers?

I believe that this serialization method already exists.  If you use method ="xhtml" then this does mostly what you describe. 

In particular, take a look at this section of the XQuery/XSLT serialization spec:

http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-xquery-serialization-11/#xhtml-output

This mandates that in the XHTML output method elements without an empty content model get serialized with their full expansion (eg <p></p>) but elements with an empty content model are serialized as <br/>.

Thanks for pointing out the HTML Polyglot spec though, I was not aware of it.  It would be interesting to see where the XHTML output mode differs from this.


Oliver