desired DOCTYPE for clientside XSLT

mbvana · September 27th, 2011, 05:21 PM

Hi.

How to obtain the desired DOCTYPE for clientside XSLT.
Can I get HTML5 DOСTYPE?

Thanks,
Mbvana

samjudson · September 28th, 2011, 12:42 PM

Depending on your XSLT processor then the following xsl:output instruction will produce the DOCTYPE declaration:

Code:

<xsl:output method="html" version="5.0" />

outputs

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML>

Tested in Saxon 9.3.0.2

Sam

mhkay · September 29th, 2011, 04:39 AM

Yes, this basic level of support for HTML5 was added to Saxon 9.3. There's nothing about HTML5 serialisation in the XSLT spec, of course; and this DOCTYPE feature is the only thing Saxon does specially for HTML5. The WG is looking at what else might be needed.