Hi Anna, 

method="html" should also come in your xsl:output.

I'm not sure that you will be able to do what you want to do strictly with browser-based xslt processing.  It seems to me that there is no way to pass a URL parameter for use in the XSL stylesheet, if that is what $file is.  You should consider generating static HTML or using javascript/ajax to display the parts of the finding aid that you want depending on a URL parameter.  The latter is actually a pretty elegant solution.

Ethan

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Anna Kresmer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Thanks a lot! I moved the doctype-public attribute to the xsl:output
element and that has made that error message go away. I also removed the
reference to the Saxon name space, which does not appear to have caused a
problem. The bit of code now reads like this:

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.1">
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
 <xsl:output encoding="ISO-8859-1" doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0
Transitional//EN" method="html"/>


However, fix one error and another one makes itself known. I now have a
pair of errors linked to 2 xsl:document attributes. The lines of code look
like this:

<xsl:document method="html" href="{$file}.html">

<xsl:document method="html" href="{$file}recordgrp{$recordgrp}.html">

In both cases, there is a jagged red line under the tml">. Each of these
lines of code are part of sections that instruct the stylesheet to create
a new page (either for the collection-level description or for each series
of the finding aid).

The error codes linked to each of them look like this:

Description: Attribute @method is not allowed on element <xsl:document>

Description: Attribute @href is not allowed on element <xsl:document>

I do not have a clue what to do with this one. Any ideas?

Sorry to take up so much time,
Anna