159061 - difference in parsing of html produced by xslt and normal html

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 130161

(Core :: XSLT, defect)

Description

[paul stanton]

compare the two pages:
http://gruden.com/paul_stanton/links/links.xml
http://gruden.com/paul_stanton/links/links.html

note: the .html file was generated using the dom inspector's 'Copy XML' function
on the .xml

two problems:
1. links.html: extra whitespace is being inserted into the <a> tags after the text
eg: <a>blah</a> becomes <a>blah   </a>

2. links.xml: the css class used on the body tag has a background-color which in
the .html version fills the whole window, in the .xml version however, it only
fills upto where text is rendered.

Also, i had to remove a javascript i had running at the bottom of the page
because in the xml version, i would get a javascript error 'document.writeln is
not a function' or something. does this mean that the javascript engine is not
available until after page load?

Comment 1

[Peter Van der Beken [:peterv]]

How does this relate to XSLT? I don't see a reference to an XSLT stylesheet
anywhere. Most of your problems seem to come from the fact that giving the file
the xml suffix makes Mozilla interpret it as XHTML.

Comment 2

[Peter Van der Beken [:peterv]]

Oh, hmm. I see now. Transformiix generates XHTML for output="html". If you keep
that in mind when writing the transformation, things start to make sense.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 130161 ***

Comment 3

[paul stanton]

please explain? sorry to have lumped 3 problems in one bug, but which are you
referring to and what do you mean? thansk.

Comment 4

[Peter Van der Beken [:peterv]]

2 and 3. DOM Inspector is not XSLT.
2: you need to set the background color on the html element.
3: document.writeln doesn't work for XHTML iirc.