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Set HTML5 doctype with XSLT

How would I cleanly set the doctype of a file to HTML5 <!DOCTYPE html> via XSLT (in this case with collective.xdv)

The following, which is the best my Google foo has been able to find:

<xsl:output
    method="html"
    doctype-public="XSLT-compat"
    omit-xml-declaration="yes"
    encoding="UTF-8"
    indent="yes" />

produces:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "XSLT-compat" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
Solution

  • I think this is currently only supported by writing the doctype out as text:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <xsl:output method="html" encoding="utf-8" indent="yes" />

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:text disable-output-escaping='yes'>&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;</xsl:text>
    <html>
    </html>
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

    This will produce the following output:

    <!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
</html>