Daniel Veillard wrote:



On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 07:05:41PM +0200, Antonio Fiol wrote:

 



Hello,



I am trying to get an XHTML document into an XSLT processor, to get XML 
on the output.

   




 A slightly different approach is to use an HTML parser front-end

instead of an XML one for the XSLT processor, that's how I maintain 
a number of web pages (authoring HTML is easier for me than maintaining

X(HT)ML). With xsltproc the --html option does this, and I'm pretty sure

most Java based implementation can use an HTML parser delivering SAX

events (but I never tried).



Daniel



 



To give you a complete approach of what I am doing:



- I am creating a Servlet based interface to some data. For that, I 
created a servlet that detects the user agent, and sends it either XML 
(if we are certain the browser supports XSLT) or HTML, by transforming 
the XML with a XSLT stylesheet on the server.



- My XSLT code should create a whole HTML page, for whose many elements 
are constant, and the "template" (not in the XSLT sense) for the page is 
defined (in HTML) by our webmaster. I can ask him to write XHTML, and/or 
run HTML TIDY on that code to get proper XHTML. However, I need to 
transform that into an XSLT file. I use an XSLT file called 
"htmltoxsl.xsl" I created for that purpose.



- My htmltoxsl.xsl reads a "slightly modified (<?xml...?> added at the 
beginning, xsl:apply-templates elements added)" (X)HTML page and outputs 
an XSLT stylesheet containing some IMPORT tags, the HTML code (which 
contains some xsl:apply-templates inside) inside an <xsl:when test="(no 
error node is present on the XML file)"> in the template for "/".



- I would like, but I cannot:

* Ask our webmaster to write XSLT.

* Include the <?...?> at the beginning of the file and ask our webmaster 
to edit that (DreamWeaver does not support it).

* Use HTML Tidy on files containing xsl:apply-templates with optional 
xsl:with-param. HTML Tidy does not understand them correctly, even 
adding the tags to the list of supported tags.




I am partially happy about what I managed to get (the described 
procedure), but if someone has suggestions on better procedures, do not 
hesitate to tell me.




Thank you all for your (previous and future) help!!




Antonio Fiol




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