Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Need help with xalan 2.1.0

[Eric Richardson <eric at milagrosoft dot com>]

Norman Walsh wrote:
> 
> / Eric Richardson <eric@milagrosoft.com> was heard to say:
> | Beside the xml declaration, what is the difference between output
> | methods anyway?
> 
> One outputs HTML, the other XHTML. Specifically, consider the handling
> of end tags:
> 
>   HTML: <img src="foo.png">
>   XHTML: <img src="foo.png"/>

Handled by <xsl:element name="img" ... based on the output method.
Didn't know this is how this works. You are so advanced in these
stylesheets that unless you are good at XSLT then it is hard to follow.
I know the difference between XML and HTML but I didn't know the
relevence - the basic stuff of XSLT. :-,

> 
> Now, I'm not sure that those two things should have to agree, but I'll
> take that up with the Xalan folks, I guess.

Okay, thanks.
Eric