Special Edition Using XSLT

Troubleshooting

Problems with the Resulting HTML

I can process the style sheets without any problems, but the output HTML is invalid. Empty elements are given XML-style abbreviated closes like <this />, or the <!DOCTYPE > is incorrect.

First of all, be sure you have the following declaration in your style sheet:

<xsl:output method=”html” /> 

This will enable HTML output mode, producing valid HTML instead of XHTML.

If a <!DOCTYPE > is important in the output, the following declaration should be used:

<xsl:output method=”html” doctype-public=”-//W3c//DTD HTML 4.01//EN” 
                     doctype-system=”http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd” /> 

Problems Writing <SCRIPT> or <STYLE> Elements

I’m writing XSLT that creates an output HTML document with a <SCRIPT> ...