[xsl] XSL transformation removing closing tag for empty div

[Dale Tan <wtdtan@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've experienced these empty divs before as well. all you need to do is 
somehting like this:

<div id="something">
<xsl:comment>keep this div not empty</xsl:comment>
</div>

and that should solve your problem of a self-closing element.
this way, you do not need to change your <xsl:output> from xml to html. 
you can keep it:

<xsl:output method="xml">

to retain xhtml formatting.

dale
>   
> > -----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