Hi,

I am using XSLT 1.0 and MSXML.

For some reason the HTML I am producing with the XLST below is not well formatted. The input tags are not being closed even though I have closed them. When I see the HTML output the input tag looks like this:

<input type="Radio" name="gb" id='{@name}' align='middle' class='fti'>


Could someone please help me to figure out what is wrong?

Cheers

P


XML
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Audiences title="description" xmlns="">
  <Audience name="All Adults" expr="( total() )" factor="100.00"/>
  <Audience name="MALE" expr="( MALE )" factor="100.00"/>
  <Audience name="FEMALE" expr="( FEMALE )" factor="100.00"/>
</Audiences>


XSLT
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
  <xsl:output method="html" omit-xml-declaration="yes" />

  <xsl:param name="SurveyReference"/>
  <xsl:template match="/Audiences">

    <div style='padding : 5px 5px 0px 5px;'>
    Choose a filter
    </div>

    <ul class='FilterList' id='ul{$SurveyReference}' style='padding : 5px 15px 15px 15px;'>
      <xsl:call-template name="ResultsBody" />
    </ul>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template name="ResultsBody">
    <xsl:for-each select="Audience">

<li style="background: url('../images/0068_green_box.png') left no-repeat; height : 20px;">
            #xa0;#xa0;#xa0;#xa0;#xa0;#xa0;

<input type="Radio" name="{$SurveyReference}" id='{@name}' align='middle' class='fti'>
            <xsl:attribute name='onclick'>
              RecordFilter('<xsl:value-of select="$SurveyReference" />','<xsl:value-of select="@name" />','<xsl:value-of select="@expr" />','<xsl:value-of select="@factor" />')
            </xsl:attribute>
</input>

        <xsl:value-of select="@name"/>
    </li>
  </xsl:for-each>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>



CURRENT HTML OUTPUT - INPUT TAG NOT BEING CLOSED
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<div style="padding : 5px 5px 0px 5px;">
    Choose a filter
</div>

<ul class="FilterList" id="ul" style="padding : 5px 15px 15px 15px;">

<li style="background: url('../images/0068_green_box.png') left no-repeat; height : 20px;">
<input type="Radio" name="" id="All Adults" align="middle" class="fti" onclick="#xA; RecordFilter('','All Adults','( total() )','100.00')#xA; ">All Adults
</li>

<li style="background: url('../images/0068_green_box.png') left no-repeat; height : 20px;"><input type="Radio" name="" id="MALE" align="middle" class="fti" onclick="#xA; RecordFilter('','MALE','( MALE )','100.00')#xA; ">MALE
</li>

<li style="background: url('../images/0068_green_box.png') left no-repeat; height : 20px;"><input type="Radio" name="" id="FEMALE" align="middle" class="fti" onclick="#xA; RecordFilter('','FEMALE','( FEMALE )','100.00')#xA; ">FEMALE
</li>

</ul>

That is well-formed html, if you want xhtml you will have to use xsl:output method="xml" and do a few workarounds or better still use an XSLT 2.0 processor and use the xhtml output method.

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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

Hi Joe,

Thanks for your reply.

I thought the input should have a closing tag like this:

<input type="Radio" name="gb" id='{@name}' align='middle' class='fti'></input>

or

<input type="Radio" name="gb" id='{@name}' align='middle' class='fti'/>


But it doesn't.

Not in HTML. I'm not sure if it's illegal or just not normal but certainly the unclosed form is legitimate.

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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

Please read the previous reply very carefully - what your XSLT processor is outputting is valid HTML. You are specifying HTML as your output method.

HTML is not always well formed XML, so perhaps this is your confusion. If you are trying to process this HTML again as if it was valid XML then you perhaps need to be using XHTML instead.

/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/

Thanks Sam and Joe for your help.

The problem I am having with the list items generated by this XSLT is that it is not showing inside the containing Div. For some reason the second and third list item is being displayed outside the containing Div. I thought that the not closing of the input tag could be causing this behaviour but it might be something else then.

Cheers

Claudio

The only DIV element I see starts and ends on lines 8 and 10 - and only contains a text element.

/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/

yeap, you are right but this is only part of the mark up. There is another DIV that contains the whole code including the UL.

Thanks