Re: [xsl] output xhtml with html style entities

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman at CraneSoftwrights dot com>]

At 2002-01-19 19:43 +0100, Thomas Winkler wrote:
>what would be the best way to output xhtml with xhtml/html entity
>references? if you use xml output, what you need for generating xhtml,

Careful, that isn't entirely true.  True XHTML has an additional lexical 
requirement that your XSLT processor XML serialization may not 
support.  Empty elements are serialized differently in XHTML than in XML:

       HTML:   <hr>
       XML:    <hr/>
       XHTML:  <hr />

The private extension {http://icl.com/saxon}xhtml does do the above 
required serialization for XHTML.

>the output is serialized into the defined character set, what is indeed
>what i expect.

.. and is equivalent to the use of the entity reference ... why is the 
entity reference important to your work?

Given that XSLT doesn't create the internal declaration subset for output, 
putting a raw entity reference in XHTML results in the entity reference 
being exposed (per XHTML 1.0 Section 3.2 Point 7), not the character 
itself.  From what I see in the XHTML document there are no predefined 
character entities other than XML's 5 predefined character entities and the 
User Agent Conformance in section 3.2 doesn't say anything about HTML's 
known entities such as "eacute".

The stylesheet writer has little or no control over serialization because 
the theory is the output from your XSLT is going to be input to a 
processor, not a human.  Therefore, it doesn't matter which serialization 
is used as long as it is correct.

>so what would be the best way, or am i missing something?

I think there is no way to request character entities to be used by a 
processor during serialization.

I hope this helps.

..................... Ken


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