XHTML 5 Resources

XMLmind has developed a robust, self-contained, W3C XML Schema for XHTML 5 which is as faithful to W3C Candidate Recommendation 17 December 2012 as an W3C XML Schema can be.

XMLmind has also developed XSLT 2 stylesheets allowing —with the help of the appropriate XSL-FO processor— to convert XHTML 1.0, 1.1 and 5.0 documents to PostScript, PDF, RTF, WordprocessingML, Office Open XML (.docx) and OpenOffice (.odt).

These XSLT 2 stylesheets

• Support a large number of parameters. These parameters are documented in Parameters of the XSLT stylesheets used to convert XHTML to XSL-FO.
• Make an extensive use of xsl:attribute-sets.
• Have been tested against the following XSL-FO processors: Apache FOP, Antenna House Formatter, RenderX XEP, XMLmind XSL-FO Converter.

The W3C XML Schema for XHTML 5 and the XSLT 2 stylesheets for XHTML 1.0, 1.1 and 5.0 developed by XMLmind are open source software licensed under the terms of the MIT license. This means that you may freely use these resources outside XMLmind products.

Contents of the distribution

xhtml5_resources.README.html

This document.

xhtml5_resources.LICENSE

The MIT license.

xsl/

Contains the XSLT 2 stylesheets allowing to convert XHTML 1.0, 1.1 and 5.0 to XSL-FO. The main stylesheet is fo.xsl.

xsd/

Contains the W3C XML Schema for XHTML 5.

Using the W3C XML schema to validate an XHTML 5 document

Example: validate this document (which is valid XHTML 5) using Xerces2 Java Parser 2.11:

$ java -cp "$XERCES_HOME/xercesSamples.jar:$XERCES_HOME/xercesImpl.jar:$XERCES_HOME/resolver.jar" \
    jaxp.SourceValidator \
    -a xsd/xhtml5.xsd -i xhtml5_resources.README.html

Using the XSLT stylesheets to convert an XHTML 5 document to PDF

The XSLT stylesheets require Saxon 9.3+ in order to work.

Example: convert this document (which is valid XHTML 5) to PDF using Apache FOP:

$ java -jar "$SAXON9_HOME/saxon9he.jar" -xsl:xsl/fo.xsl \
   -s:xhtml5_resources.README.html \
   -o:tmp.fo \
   foProcessor=FOP

$ fop tmp.fo xhtml5_resources.README.pdf

Note that the XSLT stylesheets must be passed a foProcessor parameter specifying which XSL-FO processor is being used. This allows to take advantage of extensions which are specific to the processor or or the contrary to workaround limitations which are specific to the processor.

Support

Please send bug reports to xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com a public, moderated, mailing list. (You don't need to be a list member to post a message.) More information in http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/support.html.

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