Re: XSLT and HTML
From: Bruce Wood (brucewood_at_canada.com)
Date: 01/27/05
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Date: 27 Jan 2005 10:12:15 -0800
XSLT doesn't "understand" any tags. It's just a pattern-matching
engine: "When you see this tag, generate this stuff." Its only
requirement is that the "XML" coming in must be well-formed:
o Every element must either be self-closing, as in <br />, or must have
a corresponding closing tag.
o Element tags must be nested to form a hierarchy.
o All attribute values must be surrounded by double quotes
o Attribute values must not contain invalid characters such as ' " < >
or &.
If the incoming XML meets these few criteria, XSLT will accept it and
allow you to do pattern matching on it. XHTML is simply HTML that
follows the above rules. You can read more about XHTML at:
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2004/xhtml-faq
or just Google for XHTML.
Again, XSLT doesn't "understand" any tags, any more than a text editor
"understands" English above the level of knowing how to recognize what
constitutes a word. XSLT knows what an element looks like, what an
attribute looks like, and what is just text. The rest is up to you. :)
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