RE: [xsl] XSL transformation removing closing tag for empty div

["A D" <hopethisisstillthere@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the reply. Since i am setting the content type as text/xml,
I cannot set the output to html. If I do, it will throw an error. The
reason I set the content type as text/xml is because I need an Ajax
response, which should be in XML format.



From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [xsl] XSL transformation removing closing tag for empty div
Message-ID: <009d01c7a518$03b9e0e0$6401a8c0@turtle>

Presumably if the recipient can't handle an empty element tag that means
it's expecting HTML rather than XML, so use <xsl:output method="html">.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: A D [mailto:hopethisisstillthere@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 02 June 2007 13:06
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] XSL transformation removing closing tag for empty div
>
> Hi All,
>
> I have a xsl which has an empty div:
>
> <div class="somehting"></div>
>
> I fill this div on the client side using javascript. Now, I
> make an Ajax call and on the server side, I do transformation
> in such a way that I get XML back as response to the Ajax
> call. For this, I set the servlet response content type to be
> text/xml. In doing so, the output of the transformation does
> not contain the closing tag  i.e it is changed to <div
> class="something"/> . I would want it to keep the closing
> tag. How can I achieve this?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> A D