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Leah, If you want your xsl output to be xhtml compliant, you have to make some changes to the xsl:output tag in your stylesheet. In short, the stylesheet has to be told to create xml rather than html so that rather than getting <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> you will get <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html" charset="UTF-8" />. Or in the case of <br> and <hr> you'll get <br /> and <hr />. All of those tags are empty, in that they don't have closing tags so you have to include the "/" at the end of the tag in order to be valid xhtml. The stylesheet will include those ending forward slashes if you set the xsl:output method attribute to "xml" The following is an example of the xsl:output tag in my primary stylesheet: <xsl:output method="xml" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes" omit-xml-declaration="no" doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"/> Even though the ouput method is "xml", I'm still saving as .html and browsers seem able to read it just fine. For more info on the xsl:output tag, refer to this page at the W3: http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/el_output.asp Mike ____________________________________________ Michael Rush - Manuscript Processor Massachusetts Historical Society [log in to unmask] - http://www.masshist.org (617)646-0553 - (617)859-0074 (fax) > -----Original Message----- > From: Encoded Archival Description List [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of > Leah Prescott > Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 10:51 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Getting my bearings with EAD 2 (still) > > > I have another question regarding XML Spy and EAD 2. In my > experimenting I decided to see if my html output was xhtml compliant. > It worked pretty well except that the meta tags, the <hr> tags and the > <br> tags don't output with end tags. When I look at the DTD and the > stylesheet, the end tags are there, but get lost in translation. There > is also a <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; > charset=UTF-8"> tag that I can't find anywhere else other than the > resultant html document. Is this added by XML Spy, and if so, why is > there not an end tag? > > Leah Prescott > Manuscripts and Archives Librarian > Collections Information Technology Coordinator > > MYSTIC SEAPORT > The Museum of America and the Sea > G.W. Blunt White Library > 75 Greenmanville Avenue > PO Box 6000 > Mystic CT 06355-0990 > > tel: 860.572.0711 x5263 > fax: 860.572.5394 > [log in to unmask] > http://www.mysticseaport.org -- This message has been scanned for viruses by Symantec Anti-Virus for SMTP gateways