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Re: breaking up <tags> is hard to do
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- Subject: Re: breaking up <tags> is hard to do
- From: Perry Roland <pdr4h at unix dot mail dot virginia dot edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 11:27:24 -0500
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
Since HTML allows tag minimization, you should be able to put out
empty table row tags using xsl, e.g.
<TABLE>
<TR />
<TD>row1, cell1</TD>
<TD>row1, cell2</TD>
<TR />
<TD>row2, cell1</TD>
<TD>row2, cell2</TD>
</TABLE>
Using the default output method, however, Saxon writes out
<TABLE>
<TR></TR>
<TD>row1, cell1</TD>
<TD>row1, cell2</TD>
<TR></TR>
<TD>row2, cell1</TD>
<TD>row2, cell2</TD>
</TABLE>
Fortunately, both IE and Netscape render this correctly. When
HTML is traded in for XHTML, however, this may stop working.
There will still be a lot of HTML markup which utilizes minimized
tags, though, so I suspect browsers will have to deal with it for
a long time to come.
Might it be possible to tweak the HTML output method of xsl
processors to output minimized markup or to drop the closing <TR>
tag in just before the opening of a new <TR>?
--
perry
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