Re: [xsl] Self-closing elements upset some browsers

[Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx>]

Marroc wrote:

> Any suggestions for forcing elements to use a start and end tag?

With an XSLT 1.0 processor the right way is to have the stylesheet 
generate HTML 4 and use <xsl:output method="html"/> as that way the 
processor makes sure that known HTML elements are output the right way.
For your example stylesheet you would need to strip the namespace from 
the XHTML elements e.g.
  <xsl:template match="xhtml:*" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>
    <xsl:element name="{local-name()}">
      <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>
    </xsl:element>
  <xsl:template>

XSLT 2.0 has <xsl:output method="xhtml"/> to ensure that elements sent 
as text/html to browsers like IE are output the proper wat but that is 
not an option with an XSLT 1.0 processor.




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