Re: open and closed tag merged into one using HTML output

David Smith wrote:
> > No, this is correct output, because the stylesheet has a default namespace 
> > set
> > (xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/strict";). The spec calls for XML syntax 
> > to
> > be used when serializing an element that's not in the empty namespace.
> >  
> what namespace should I use then?
To ensure that you get HTML 4 syntax while in html output mode, the element
needs to be in no namespace. There's no reason you would ever need to have an
XHTML namespace declaration (or any namespaces at all) if you're outputting
HTML instead of XML.

Mike

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