<meta> tag is appearing in xml file

saurabh_inblore · April 24th, 2006, 06:40 AM

Hi,

Following is my input xml file:

<items>
    <item id="i01">Glass</item>
    <item id="i02">Table</item>
</items>

The output xml(say items_new.xml) will be looked like below:
------------------------------------------------------------

<html>
        <head>
        <title>Different Items</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <items>
            <item id="i01">Glass</item>
            <item id="i02">Table</item>
        </items>
    </body>
</html>

I have written the xsl file in which I havn't mentioned about <meta> tag. But in output xml file <meta> tag is coming. Since <meta> is not closed in output xml it is giving error as 'File is not Well Formed'.

Any idea how to remove this <meta> in the output xml.

items.xsl
-------------------------------------------------------

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:template match="/">
        <html>
            <head>
                <title>Different Items</title>
            </head>
            <body>
                <xsl:apply-templates/>
            </body>
        </html>
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="items">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="node() | @*"/>
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="node() | @*">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="node() | @*"/>
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

items_new.xml
--------------------------------------------------

<html>
    <head>
              <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
          <title>Different Items</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <items>
            <item id="i01">Glass</item>
            <item id="i02">Table</item>
        </items>
    </body>
</html>

Thanks in advance.

Saurabh

mhkay · April 24th, 2006, 06:46 AM

Because the outermost element of your result document is <html>, the system defaults to using the HTML output method. If you want the XML output method to be used, specify <xsl:output method="xml"/>.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

saurabh_inblore · April 24th, 2006, 11:56 PM

Thanks Michael. It is working now.

--Saurabh