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RE: self closing elements with attributes

2004-01-06 16:54:29
There's something going on that you haven't shown us. With the XML
output method, it should be impossible for the output to be anything
other than well-formed XML: at any rate, all the tags should be
balanced. Since you're getting the same result on two widely-used XSLT
processors, it's clearly something in your stylesheet that's wrong, but
it's not in the part that you've shown us.

Michael Kay

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Sent: 06 January 2004 20:22
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Subject: [xsl] self closing elements with attributes


I'm sure this is a newbie problem, but I can't see what I'm 
doing wrong.

I have a template like this:

<xsl:element name="foo">
<xsl:attribute name="bar">
some foo
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:element>

I have also tried:

<foo>
<xsl:attribute name="bar">
some foo
</xsl:attribute>
</foo>

Both give the same result:

<foo bar="some foo">

Which is a problem since it does not close the tag.  If I try

<xsl:element name="foo">
<xsl:attribute name="bar">
some foo
</xsl:attribute>
foo
</xsl:element>

or

<foo>
<xsl:attribute name="bar">
some foo
</xsl:attribute>
foo
</foo>

The result is a correctly closed tag:

<foo bar="some foo">foo</foo>

I have tried this with the same results on several varieties 
of MSXML, and on Xalan-1 and Xalan-2

Is there anything I can do about this that won't require post 
processing?

--Brendan


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