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Re: Empty element match

From: Tjerk Wolterink <tjerk@------------------.--->
To: NULL
Date: 7/2/2005 10:50:00 AM
Richard Tobin wrote:
> In article <da4gpq$54j$1@n...>,
> Tjerk Wolterink  <tjerk@w...> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Ok thus namespaces are not allowed in html?
> 
> 
> HTML, being SGML rather than XML, knows nothing about namespaces.
> As far as HTML is concerned, xhtml:html is an element it's never
> heard of, and <html xmlns="whatever-the-xhtml-namespace-is"> has
> an invalid attribute (though it probably wouldn't mind that).
> 
> But as far as outputting HTML from XSLT goes, only elements in no
> namespace are output according to the HTML rules.  So you have to
> choose between outputting XHTML using the appropriate namespace, or
> outputtting HTML with no namespace.
> 

ok but my output method is set to html, why are the namespaces still 
there?

> 
>>How does xsl handle empty elements,
>>does it convert them to
>><element/>
>>or to
>><element></element>
> 
> 
> When outputting XML, it's up to the implementation, because they are
> equivalent as XML.  When outputting HTML, it will do the Right Thing,
> according to what kind of HTML element it is (so it will output
> always-empty elements as, for example, <br>).
> 
> -- Richard

ok thanks


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