Re: ISSUE-54 (html5-doctype-vs-xslt): XSLT 1.0 can not generate HTML5 documents [HTML 5 spec]

Julian Reschke wrote:
> ...
>> I'd've thought exactly the opposite: "XSLT-compat" is somewhat
>> self-documenting, indicating that this is XSLT-compatible HTML.  Whereas
>> "PUBLIC ''" is a cryptic bit of boilerplate with no obvious purpse --
>> which could therefore lead to the fears Henri mentioned, of people
>> thinking it's needed for reasons other than XSLT compatibility and
>> including it unnecessarily.
> 
> 1) "XSLT-compat" is a bit misleading, because it may be relevant to 
> other producers as well.
> ...

I just checked my last project where I needed to produce HTML from Java 
-- turns out that it falls into the same category, as it uses 
javax.xml.transform just for the purpose of serializing to HTML. Note 
that this is *not* XSLT, just usage of a standard JDK method to produce 
HTML.

So, which standard libraries do people use on other platforms (such as 
.NET), and can *those* produce the HTML5 header?

BR, Julian

----- sample code -----
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.transform.OutputKeys;
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
import javax.xml.transform.sax.SAXTransformerFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;

import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;

public class TestHtml5 {

   public static void main(String[] args) throws 
ParserConfigurationException, TransformerException {

     Document doc = 
DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder().newDocument();

     Element html = doc.createElement("html");
     doc.appendChild(html);

     SAXTransformerFactory stf = 
(SAXTransformerFactory)SAXTransformerFactory.newInstance();
     Transformer t = stf.newTransformerHandler().getTransformer();
     t.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.METHOD, "html");
     t.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.DOCTYPE_SYSTEM, "");

     t.transform(new DOMSource(doc), new StreamResult(System.out));

   }
}

Received on Tuesday, 2 September 2008 11:39:04 UTC