RE: What I need from XML

by Simon Wickes <netlists(at)email.com>

 Date:  Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:55:06 -0500
 To:  hwg-xml(at)hwg.org
  todo: View Thread, Original
At 04:40 PM 2000-03-19, you wrote:
>You might want to look into XSLT for part of this. XSLT (XML
>Transformations) allows you to write definitions to transform an XML file
>into another XML file. It can be used to transform an XML file into an HTML
>file, with the caveat that the transformed HTML file must conform to the
>well-formedness rules of XML. So, for example, you will need closing tags
>for all opening tags. Even images and other "empty" tags need to be closed.

This is true, however, you can output an "empty" tag in XML. You need to 
put a slash at the *end* of the tag itself. For example, to output an 
image, use:

<img src="location-of-file.gif"/>



Simon

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Simon Wickes
New Jersey, USA

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