[xsl] Can I force XSLT to output the long-form of an element rather than the shorthand form?

[Chris Loschen <loschen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, all!

Yes, I know that '<a id="page-1"></a>' and '<a id="page-1" />' are supposed 
to be equivalent,
but one of the tools my users use (XMetaL) doesn't. It throws a validation 
error for '<a id="page-1" />'
but not (interestingly enough) for '<br />'. My reading of what they're 
trying to do is that they
say that the shorthand form is allowed if and only if the element is 
defined as EMPTY in the
associated DTD.

In any case, I need to provide the long-form of such elements or my users 
can't edit the files
in XMetaL. I've been running a search-and-replace after the XSLT run up 
until now, and I can
continue to do that, but I wondered if there's some switch or option I 
haven't yet found that
would let XSLT produce the right (or wrong) thing. I'm using xalan-java 2.5 
if that helps.

Thanks for your help!


--Chris

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