Re: [xsl] self closing elements with attributes

[Brendan Moran <annirack@xxxxxxx>]

That explained it nicely, thank you.  The two tags where this happened 
noticeably were <link> and <img>, and I hadn't used an output 
instruction, which would explain the problem.

--Brendan

> 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:


> 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.



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