html tags to reformed to xhtml standard using xsl

swapbpl · April 8th, 2008, 07:06 AM

I wanted the html tags to reformed to xhtml standard using xslt.
Like

<html>
<li>

some para 
<li>text<li>[list]<li>some sentence </li>
<li> another text </li>
</ul>
</li></li>
</html>

Is valid in html but Invalid in xhtml
It should re formatted using xslt

<html>
<li>
some para </li>
<li>text[list]<li>some sentence </li>
<li> another text </li>
</ul></li>
</html>

Help will be appreciated. thanks in Advance

Martin Honnen · April 8th, 2008, 07:13 AM

It is not clear to me what you want to achieve. Neither the first nor the second sample is valid XHTML, there are several things missing:
You need the XHTML namespace http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml, you need a head and a body element, you need a ul parent element for the li elements.

--
Martin Honnen
Microsoft MVP - XML

swapbpl · April 10th, 2008, 05:44 AM

Hi,

In my html file I have following code..

â¦..

â¦.



 <li>

 <a href="asd.aspx">test</a>

 

 second line.

 <li>

 <a href="http://www.cv.com/f.aspx">Third Line</a>

 

 Cross-browser 

 </li>

 <li>

 <a href="http://www.d.com/d.aspx">

 

 Line

 

 </a>

 

 Third Line.

 <li>

 <a href="http://www.r.com/h.aspx">

 

 Foruth line

 

 </a>

 

 gfgfg

 </li>

 </li>

 </li>

 

â¦.

â¦.

Under If <li> is present it should [list]<li>â¦.

As in above case <li><li><li>fd</li>></li></li> should be <li>[list]<li>[list]<li>fd</li></ul></li></ul></li>.

If nest <li> is present without[list][list] should be inserted

mhkay · April 10th, 2008, 06:53 AM

Wouldn't you be better off using a tool such as JTidy? Cleaning up bad HTML is a fairly major project, and you seem to be tackling it in a fairly ad-hoc manner.

Having said that, if you want to group consecutive li elements that aren't children of a ul, you can do it like this:

<xsl:template match="p">
 <xsl:for-each-group select="*" group-adjacent="boolean(self::li)">
 <xsl:choose>
 <xsl:when test="current-grouping-key()">
 [list]<xsl:copy-of select="current-group()"/></ul>
 </xsl:when>
 <xsl:otherwise>
 <xsl:copy-of select="current-group()"/>
 </xsl:otherwise>
 </xsl:for-each-group>
</xsl:template>

But that's only one of very many rules you will have to apply.

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

swapbpl · April 11th, 2008, 01:18 AM

Hi Michael,
JTidy is written in java . Is it possible to use with c# Asp.net 2.0?
Thanks

samjudson · April 11th, 2008, 03:08 AM

http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/20505/1763/

/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/

mhkay · April 11th, 2008, 10:00 AM

I believe that all machines that run .NET will also run Java. So yes. If you really want you can cross-compile to .NET using IKVMC, but it depends what you want to achieve.

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

swapbpl · April 17th, 2008, 12:33 AM

Please provide the above code in xslt 1.0

mhkay · April 17th, 2008, 03:14 AM

What do you mean by "the above code"? My posting of 2008-04-10?

If you want to do positional grouping in XSLT 1.0 it can be done, but it's not easy - it requires a good understanding of how to write recursive templates. I'm afraid that writing this kind of code in XSLT 1.0 is no pleasure - I don't like working with one hand tied behind my back - so I'll leave it to you. Search for "positional grouping".

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

Alain COUTHURES · April 19th, 2008, 10:29 AM

Tidy is perfect for converting HTML to XHTML so this program has many options. If it is just for parsing purposes, a simple function is enough. I have written such a function in C# : http://sourceforge.net/projects/light-html2xml