Re: [docbook] HTML and XHTML XSL stylesheets

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

[I'm moving this over to the docbook-apps mailing list because that is 
where stylesheet issues are discussed]

Using the html stylesheet will output <br> because that is proper HTML 
output (which is SGML, not XML). When you see "<br/>" in the XSL 
stylesheets, that is the proper XML notation for an empty element.  It is 
the XSLT processor working with <xsl:output method="html"/> that converts 
that to a <br> for HTML output.

As you say, using the xhtml stylesheet would give you <br/> and output that 
is more easily parsed.  Many people are using the xhtml stylesheets with 
the browsers you mention.  Can you describe the formatting problems you are 
seeing?  Are you using a customization layer?  Do you have the same 
problems with the stock DocBook stylesheet?

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charlie Hubbard" <charlie.hubbard@gmail.com>
To: <docbook@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2006 9:34 PM
Subject: [docbook] HTML and XHTML XSL stylesheets


> Hi,
>
> I'm using the HTML XSL stylesheets to transform a docbook.  However,
> after I run the stylesheets I get strange results.  I'm getting <br>
> instead of <br/> or <img> instead of <img/>.  I checked the
> stylesheets shipped with docbook, and they all have <br/> and <img/>
> tags closed like in XML.  I've tried changing the output option to
> xml, but it still exports them without the closing tag or short hand
> form closing.
>
> I moved into using the HTML after using the XHTML stylesheets, but
> unfortunately, I ran into a bigger problem with XHTML and whitespace
> formating in IE and firefox.  I don't think the XHTML stylesheets are
> usable because of this problem.  It could be bugs in the browsers, but
> bugs or no bugs it still won't format correctly.
>
> I'm trying to get something that is XHTML so that it can be parsed
> more easily, but I have to create HTML so that the browsers will
> format and display the results properly.
>
> Charlie
>
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