Re: [xsl] Empty Tags not closed properly

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/12/2010 10:39, Andreas Knote wrote:

You don't give enough iinformation to recreate your output, and you 
don't show the output you got, so I'm having to guess.

But my guess is that saxon did close the output immediately but you were 
using the xml output method so it used xml syntax <ul/> for the empty 
element.

That would be OK if you served the file with an xml mime type but 
unfortunately people serve such documents with an html mime type and 
browsers, when parsing <ul/> treat it exactly the same as <ul> they 
ignore the slash and then the element will br forced closed later in the 
document at the wrong time.

So either serve the result as html or use the html or xhtml output 
types, in which case saxon will serialise as <ul></ul>

Or my guess is wrong in which case you'll need to re-ask with more 
information.

David