My knee-jerk is that what you are seeing is not a bug. The spec says
something about if the node has a namespace on it, it should be output as
XML rather than as HTML. Since you are assigning the default namespace,
all the nodes are namespaced and thus must be in XML.
-scott
Christian Wolfgang Hujer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 12/14/2002
05:53:39 PM:
> Hello dear list members,
>
> it seems that xsl:output method="html" does not really output html but
xml
> when the source document contains a namespace node.
>
> Try the following:
>
> Source document:
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="de">
> <head>
> <title>Test</title>
> </head>
> <body>
> <p>
> Line
> <br />
> Next Line
> </p>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> Transform:
> <xsl:transform
> version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
> >
>
> <xsl:output
> method="html"
> />
>
> <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
> <xsl:copy>
> <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
> </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:transform>
>
> And take a look at the result.
> Expected: <br>
> Result: <br />
>
> When the namespace declaration is removed from the source document,
> the result
> is as expected:
> Expected: <br>
> Result: <br>
>
> Is this a documented and expected behaviour, have I missed something or
is
> this a bug?
>
> It's really annoying since I write XHTML Basic as source documents (which
are
> validated using the xmlvalidate task of ant) and want to transform them
to
> XHTML 1.1 and HTML 4.01.
>
> Bye
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