Re: [xsl] Closing element required instead of self closing

[Owen Rees <owen.rees@xxxxxx>]

--On Tuesday, July 15, 2008 14:54:57 +0100 Andrew Welch wrote:

> And come on, saying deliver HTML to an HTML user agent is pretty
> unhelpful - you just flick a switch don't you?  :)

If the final form of the content is being generated by XSLT it should not 
be too hard to arrange to generate both HTML and XHTML and choose which to 
deliver with some strategy based on what the client sends in its Accept 
header.

> > If you are delivering content as application/xhtml+xml to an agent that
> > understands XHTML then any valid serialisation of the XML will do just
> > fine.
>
> You might be right, but don't all the elements have to be lowercase?
> So <DIV/> wouldn't be valid XHTML... There must a be a few more
> differences...

For one, the elements have to be in the right namespace for it to be XHTML.

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Owen Rees; speaking personally, and not on behalf of HP.
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