Micah, > That would not make valid XHTML (assuming you're generating XHTML > 1.). Your <xsl:stylesheet> opening tag should contain something like: > > xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";
It was, in fact, the XHTML validator that made me realize that I had a problem in the first place. I had the xmlns string in the stylesheet earlier, but had removed it for some reason. I put it back and, like magic, I have validating XHTML code. Thanks! > Some processors provide extensions to convert a result fragment into a > node set; but you should be able to do the same thing in another way > (XSLT is Turing complete, after all). You haven't really given much > information on what it is you want to achieve: can you give an example > of what you're trying to accomplish? Well, it isn't a case in which I can't get the result that I want--it's a case of not being able to do things in the way I want to, so the fact that XHTML is Turing-complete does not guarantee anything. Let's say, for instance, that have an XML tag for a project description... here's a very contrived example: <project name="TTP"> The TTP Project is the only project in our company with a fully recursive acronym. </project> And I want to convert that to the following XHTML: <hr /> <img class="sep" src="pretty.png" alt="" /> <hr /> <p><strong>Project name: TTP</strong></p> <q>The TTP Project is the only project in our company with a fully recursive acronym.</p> This is fine, but suppose that I soon realize that the "sep" image surrounded by two <hr /> tags is something I use in many places in my stylesheet, and I want to make it a parameterized entity that I can use in many settings, like <sepimage src="pretty.png" />. I don't know how to do this in XSLT; it seems that I am doomed to repeat the XHTML in each case, since <sepimage ... /> is not part of the source document. Suppose I change my mind and want all these separator images (both those separating project descriptions and otherwise) to have one <hr /> rather than two--I'll have to go through my stylesheet and find each place where I used a separator image and fix it. Basically, I want subroutines that I can use to abstract common but parametric elements of my stylesheets, and after going through a number of XSLT tutorials, I still can't find 'em. Thanks for your help! Much appreciated. Jonathan. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
