RE: [xsl] tag minimisation

Subject: RE: [xsl] tag minimisation
From: "Snow, Corey" <CSNOW@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 09:08:25 -0800
The serialization issue shouldn't arise with any of the XML parsers if
you're trying to produce HTML. Do you have an <xsl:output method="html"/>
element in your stylesheet? If you want to ouput HTML (which is not
well-formed) then you'll need to specify this.

For XML, tag structure for empty elements is irrelevant.

Regards,

Corey Snow

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Welch [mailto:andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 12:48 AM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [xsl] tag minimisation
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >No it is entirely up to the system how it linearises empty elements:
> >some XSLT systems use <p/> some <p></p> .Since every XML system will
> >treet these identically it shouldn't matter which you get.
> 
> Well, it does matter.
> 
> I will give you some code:
> 
> <style>
>   span p {margin-left:0em}
>   p {margin-left:2.5em}
> </style>
> <body>
>   <span></span>
>   <p>Hello</p>
>   <span/>
>   <p>world</p>
> </body>
> 
> The output you will get in IE5.5 is:
> 
> 	Hello
> World
> 
> The <p> after the minimised <span/> does not pick up its CSS 
> style properly.
> From a few tests, I found that msxml2.6 converted 
> <span></span> to <span/>
> whilst MSXML3 and Instant Saxon left it as <span></span> (and 
> not causing a
> problem).
> 
> Ive tried converting the above to xhtml, but that doesnt 
> solve the problem
> either.
> 
> Has anyone had similar problems with tag minimisation, and 
> any possible
> solutions?
> 
> 
> 
> cheers
> 
> andrew
> 
> ===
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of David
> Carlisle
> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 5:02 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [xsl] tag minimisation
> 
> 
> 
> > whereas xsl proper keeps it as <p></p>.
> 
> No it is entirely up to the system how it linearises empty elements:
> some XSLT systems use <p/> some <p></p> .Since every XML system will
> treet these identically it shouldn't matter which you get.
> 
> David
> 
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