Re: [xsl] self closing elements with attributes

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2004-01-06 12:21 -0800, annirack@xxxxxxx wrote:
> I have a template like this:
>
> <xsl:element name="foo">
> <xsl:attribute name="bar">
> some foo
> </xsl:attribute>
> </xsl:element>
>
> I have also tried:
>
> <foo>
> <xsl:attribute name="bar">
> some foo
> </xsl:attribute>
> </foo>
>
> Both give the same result:
>
> <foo bar="some foo">

That is not conformant behaviour.

If your output method is HTML and the element type is an HTML element type, 
then that *is* the expected output because in that case SGML conventions 
are used, but otherwise a conforming processor would put out the following 
XML conventions for the default XML output method:

<foo bar="some foo"/>

or

<foo bar="some foo"></foo>

which are equivalent.

> I have tried this with the same results on several varieties of MSXML, and 
> on Xalan-1 and Xalan-2

Please check your <xsl:output/> instruction for the use of HTML ... but 
your report is not at all consistent with my expectations of MSXML and 
Xalan, both of which should be producing a properly constructed empty element.

If you think you are engaging everything properly, then please post a short 
(15 line?) complete stylesheet that illustrates your results so that others 
can run your stylesheet on their system.

I hope this helps.

....................... Ken


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