Re: [Xsltforms-support] applying a stylesheet in an instance to data in an instance
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Re: [Xsltforms-support] applying a stylesheet in an instance to data in an instance
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From: C. M. Sperberg-M. <cm...@bl...> - 2012-07-14 02:32:15
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[Those not interested in interim or partial results relating to the problem
of running XSLT in a form can skip this message and wait for a
post mortem analysis later on, once the problem is finally resolved.]
On Jul 12, 2012, at 3:15 PM, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen wrote:
> In a form I'm working on, I'd like to apply a stylesheet located in a
> document instance (instance('filter') to an input document located in
> another instance (instance('userdoc')).
>
> It doesn't seem to be working, and I wonder if anyone here can see
> what I'm doing wrong.
>
> ...
>
> The form loads as expected and the function seems to be called
> without incident and without error messages (and alert messages
> confirm that the arguments look pretty much as I expect them to look).
> But the result is consistently not the output I expect from the stylesheet,
> but a document which reads in its entirety:
>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
> <head><title></title></head>
> <body>
> <pre></pre>
> </body>
> </html>
Further data: This is what the output looks like in Safari and Chrome,
but in Firefox I get instead something like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<transformiix:result xmlns:transformiix="http://www.mozilla.org/TransforMiix"></transformiix:result>
More generally, all the browsers I've tested appear to force the output
of any XSLT transformation to XML (or HTML); if the stylesheet uses
xsl:output method="text", the output gets wrapped in something -- in the
case of Safari and Chrome, it gets wrapped in an HTML document with
a pre element, while in Firefox it gets wrapped in a transformiix:result
element. In Opera, the current version of my form doesn't work at all
yet, but a test case with some simple transforms shows that in Opera,
the output of a text-method XSLT stylesheet is wrapped in a 'result'
element (and preceded by an XML declaration).
So the result I was seeing with Safari (shown above) seems to indicate
that the transformation I was trying to run was producing no output.
>
> Anyone have a clue? Anyone have a better (or just different) way to go about
> this?
This continues to be a live question; if I get this working, I'll try to document
what I learned, in the hopes that it can help others.
Michael
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