Re: [xsl] open and closed tag merged into one using HTML output

["David Smith" <david.smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike Brown wrote:

> J.Pietschmann wrote:
>  
>
> > David Smith wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > <textarea name="text"><xsl:value-of select="/root/description"/></textarea>
> > > but when it is parsed, as there is no /root/description element, or it's 
> > > empty, it comes out like this:
> > > <textarea name="text"/>
> > >      
> > This should not happen if the output method was correctly set to HTML.
> >    
>
> No, this is correct output, because the stylesheet has a default namespace set
> (xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/strict";). The spec calls for XML syntax to
> be used when serializing an element that's not in the empty namespace.
>  
what namespace should I use then?

Dave Smith


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