[XSLT] Valid XHTML

G

Greg

Hi everybody,

so, I would like to use XML files for some parts of my website. I would like
to respect W3C XHTML 1.1 recommendation.
Then, I have these two docs :
o My XML file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="cdcatalog.xsl"?>

<catalog>
<cd>
<title>Empire Burlesque</title>
<artist>Bob Dylan</artist>
<country>USA</country>
<company>Columbia</company>
<price>10.90</price>
<year>1985</year>
</cd>

[...]

<cd>
<title>Unchain my heart</title>
<artist>Joe Cocker</artist>
<country>USA</country>
<company>EMI</company>
<price>8.20</price>
<year>1987</year>
</cd>
</catalog>

o My XSL stylesheet:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:eek:utput method="xml"
doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"
doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
<h2>My CD Collection</h2>
<table border="1">
<tr bgcolor="#9acd32">
<th align="left">Title</th>
<th align="left">Artist</th>
</tr>
<xsl:for-each select="catalog/cd">
<tr>
<td><xsl:value-of select="title"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="artist"/></td>
</tr>
</xsl:for-each>
</table>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

As it's writen in W3C website
(http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-XML-Output-Method):
"If the doctype-system attribute is specified, the xml output method should
output a document type declaration immediately before the first element."

But W3C validator (http://validator.w3.org/) tells me that my XML file is
not valid:
Fatal Error: No DOCTYPE specified!

My question is: What did I do or what I did not do ?

You can find those two exemple at that address:
http://bimyou.free.fr/xmltest/cdcatalog.xml

Thanks

Greg
 
D

Dimitre Novatchev

Change:
<html>
Click to expand...

to:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

but then you'll find other errors -- e.g. no "head" is present in the output
of the transformation.


=====
Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL


Greg said:
Hi everybody,

so, I would like to use XML files for some parts of my website. I would like
to respect W3C XHTML 1.1 recommendation.
Then, I have these two docs :
o My XML file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="cdcatalog.xsl"?>

<catalog>
<cd>
<title>Empire Burlesque</title>
<artist>Bob Dylan</artist>
<country>USA</country>
<company>Columbia</company>
<price>10.90</price>
<year>1985</year>
</cd>

[...]

<cd>
<title>Unchain my heart</title>
<artist>Joe Cocker</artist>
<country>USA</country>
<company>EMI</company>
<price>8.20</price>
<year>1987</year>
</cd>
</catalog>

o My XSL stylesheet:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:eek:utput method="xml"
doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"
doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
<h2>My CD Collection</h2>
<table border="1">
<tr bgcolor="#9acd32">
<th align="left">Title</th>
<th align="left">Artist</th>
</tr>
<xsl:for-each select="catalog/cd">
<tr>
<td><xsl:value-of select="title"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="artist"/></td>
</tr>
</xsl:for-each>
</table>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

As it's writen in W3C website
(http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-XML-Output-Method):
"If the doctype-system attribute is specified, the xml output method should
output a document type declaration immediately before the first element."

But W3C validator (http://validator.w3.org/) tells me that my XML file is
not valid:
Fatal Error: No DOCTYPE specified!

My question is: What did I do or what I did not do ?

You can find those two exemple at that address:
http://bimyou.free.fr/xmltest/cdcatalog.xml

Thanks

Greg
Click to expand...
 
D

Dimitre Novatchev

I forgot to tell you to add:

encoding="ASCII"

to your xsl:eek:utput


Then I pass the result to the validater and get:

This page is not Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional!
Below are the results of attempting to parse this document with an SGML
parser.

1.. Line 4, column 5: document type does not allow element "body" here
(explain...).
<body>
^2.. Line 21, column 6: end tag for "html" which is not finished
(explain...).
</html>
^Source Listing
Below is the source input I used for this validation:

1: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ASCII"?>
2: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
3: <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
4: <body>
5: <h2>My CD Collection</h2>
6: <table border="1">
7: <tr bgcolor="#9acd32">
8: <th align="left">Title</th>
9: <th align="left">Artist</th>
10: </tr>
11: <tr>
12: <td>Empire Burlesque</td>
13: <td>Bob Dylan</td>
14: </tr>
15: <tr>
16: <td>Unchain my heart</td>
17: <td>Joe Cocker</td>
18: </tr>
19: </table>
20: </body>
21: </html>
=====
Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL
Greg said:
"Dimitre Novatchev" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de news:
[email protected]...

to:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

but then you'll find other errors -- e.g. no "head" is present in the output
of the transformation.
Click to expand...

Thanks, but after changing it, I still get the same error: "Fatal Error: No
DOCTYPE specified!".
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://bimyou.free.fr/xmltest/cdcatalog.xml

Like if the doctype-system/public won't work...?

[SNIP]
Click to expand...
 
G

Greg

I forgot to tell you to add:
encoding="ASCII"

to your xsl:eek:utput
Done.

Then I pass the result to the validater and get:
[SNIP]

Below is the source input I used for this validation:
Click to expand...

[SNIP]

Maybe that's the problem. I use my XML file directly, but you seem to use a
XHTML file resulting from my two files, or am I totally wrong.
Does the validator can validate XML files directly?
 
D

Dimitre Novatchev

Maybe that's the problem. I use my XML file directly, but you seem to use
a
XHTML file resulting from my two files, or am I totally wrong.
Does the validator can validate XML files directly?
Click to expand...

Why do you intednd to XHTML-validate *any* xml???

The idea behind XHTML validation is to see whether or not the input is valid
according to the XHTML schema.

Obviously, feeding the XHTML validator with *any* xml will return
"invalid" -- therefore it's waste of time to do it.

What may only be useful is to check whether the result of your xslt
transformation (which is supposed to generate XHTML) is really valid XHTML.

Remember, validation is checking against a schema -- it is not just checking
to see if some text is well-formed xml. A valid document must be well-formed
but not every well-formed document is valid.

=====
Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL
 

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