<xsl:output method=âxhtmlâ> problem

li72 · May 15th, 2007, 10:48 AM

Hi. everyone
Iâm using Tomcat server to develop a web application which requires developing an xslt stylesheet to transform xml doc into xhtml doc.
In addition, xslt version 2.0 allows us to use
<xsl:output method=âxhtmlâ>. However, when I run my application the Tomcat is crashed and I get this error message.

Error: âjndi:/localhost/WEB-INF/classes/xslt/xxx.xslt: line 8: The method attribute of an <xsl:output> element had the value âxhtmlâ. The value must be one of xml, html, text, or qname-but-not-ncnameâ
FATAL ERROR: âCould not compile stylesheetâ

Any clue?

Cheers

bonekrusher · May 16th, 2007, 05:22 AM

Hi Did you try "html"?

li72 · May 16th, 2007, 08:46 AM

Hi.
thanks bonekrusher 4 ur reply.

html is working fine, but i need to convert my xml doc into xhtml.

it is possible by replacing html by xml, but it comes with JavaScript problems.

tripecac · May 16th, 2007, 09:09 AM

Are you sure the html output isn't already xhtml?

I'm using the following:

Code:

<xsl:output method="html" indent="no" encoding="iso-8859-1"
  doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
  doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"
  omit-xml-declaration="yes" />

...and my resulting page validates as xhtml 1.0 strict:

http://tripalot.com/tripecac/albums/halfdosin/

li72 · May 16th, 2007, 10:00 AM

Yes it is. But the reason behind my question is that when I use <xsl:output method="html"> I faced no problem with parsing JavaScript which embedded in xslt file. However, using <xsl:output method="xml"> instead, results in parsing problem of JavaScript. Despite the fact that I placed all JavaScript code between <[!CDATA[[ and ]]>.
I tried another way by placing all JavaScript in an external JavaScript file and import it to xslt file like this
<script src="validation.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
but xslt failed to import this file even though they are in same directory.

Please help

mhkay · May 16th, 2007, 10:45 AM

This element

<script src="validation.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

will be copied by the XSLT processor to the result document just like any other. What makes you think the XSLT processor will treat it specially by "importing the script"? As with all other elements in the result tree, it only acquires a meaning when the browser takes over.

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