Re: using HTML tags in XML documents

[email protected] wrote:
> I would like to be able to use tags like <html:br/> in my XML document
> (http://l2f.noodley.com/xml/index.xml, they are commented out).
> 
> I want a tag like the above to be the HTML equivalent of <br/> without
> having to create a template for each and every tag. Is this possible?

You can use XHTML element e.g.

   <page xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
     <news>
       <item>
          ...
          <xhtml:br/>
       </item>
     </news>
   </page>

then you need a template to copy XHTML through (if the output is XML) or 
to convert them to HTML (if the output is HTML):

   <xsl:template match="item">
     <li><xsl:apply-templates/></li>
   </xsl:template>
   <xsl:template xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
      match="xhtml:*">
       <xsl:copy>
         <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>
       </xsl:copy>
   </xsl:template>
respectively
   <xsl:template xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
      match="xhtml:*">
       <xsl:element name="{local-name()}">
         <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>
       </xsl:element>
   </xsl:template>

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	Martin Honnen
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