Subject: [xsl] HTML/XHTML/HTML5 Serialization Options From: "Eliot Kimber ekimber@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 21:08:15 -0000 |
This may be a Saxon-specific question, but I'll start here as there may be a general answer. I am generating HTML, either as XHTML or HTML or HTML5 and I'm running into issues with the handling of empty elements (meaning elements that were or can be tagged as self-closed elements, e.g., <br>). Doing a quick test with Saxon 9.6 and XSLT 2, given this input: <p>A br element: before<br/>after</p> And serializing it using method "html" the result is the expected: <p>A br element: before<br>after </p> But for XHTML it's: <p>A br element: before <br></br>after </p> What I would like to is a self-closed BR element: <br/>. Looking at the Saxon documentation I didn't see any Saxon-specific serialization parameters that would control this behavior. I realize I could implement my own serializer but I'm not keen to go to that length if at all possible. Is there a general solution that allows me to have XHTML or HTML5 output with self-closing elements? This comes up for me in several contexts: - Generating XHTML as required for EPUB2 and Kindle documents - Generating HTML as required for Web sites - Generating HTML5 as required for EPUB3 and for use in HTML5-based Web sites I suspect that the real problem is generating XHTML when I should be generating HTML. I need to explore that more, but I wanted to understand my readily-available serialization options first. Thanks, Eliot bbbbb Eliot Kimber, Owner Contrext, LLC http://contrext.com
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