Hi Bill,

Are you including the proper doctype with your html output?

For instance, something like this:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<head>

<title>Guide to a Collection</title>

</head>

<body>

</body>

</html>

should validate fine.

And for this, you would still use something like <xsl:output method=”html”>

Does that work for you?

Mark Custer

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Subject: EAD 2 XHTML

I am attempting to transform EAD to XHTML. My XSL stylesheet <xsl:stylesheet> element has several namespaces which get output as attribute to the opening <html> element.

Here is my opening stylesheet element:

<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:ead="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:fn="http://www.w3.org/2005/02/xpath-functions"
xmlns:xdt="http://www.w3.org/2005/02/xpath-datatypes" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">

Here is the resulting HTML element:

Here is my <xsl:output> element:

Of course, these namespace attributes are not valid for the <html> element, but are required for <xsl:stylesheet>.

How do I resolve this problem?

Bill Walker

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