Not sure if I'm being dense here, but I don't seem to be able to produce valid XHTML from my stylesheet.

I've got:

<xsl:stylesheet
  version="1.0"
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:output
  method="html"
  encoding="UTF-8"
  omit-xml-declaration="yes"
  doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
  doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"
  indent="yes" />

In the head of my stylesheet. However, in the result document my META tags are produced unclosed i.e. <meta content="item" name="meta_name">
and my <br /> tags become <br>

All of this, of course, causes it to fail the w3c validator for XHTML 1.0 Transitional.

Is this a problem with my XSLT or with the java Transformer classes?

hmk

If you ask for method="html" you will get HTML, not XHTML.

To produce XHTML, use method="xml". Some XSLT 1.0 processors also support method="xhtml" but it's not standard until XSLT 2.0.



Michael Kay
http://saxon.sf.net/