At 2004-01-06 12:21 -0800, annirack(_at_)shaw(_dot_)ca wrote:
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">
That is not conformant behaviour.
If your output method is HTML and the element type is an HTML element type,
then that *is* the expected output because in that case SGML conventions
are used, but otherwise a conforming processor would put out the following
XML conventions for the default XML output method:
<foo bar="some foo"/>
or
<foo bar="some foo"></foo>
which are equivalent.
I have tried this with the same results on several varieties of MSXML, and
on Xalan-1 and Xalan-2
Please check your <xsl:output/> instruction for the use of HTML ... but
your report is not at all consistent with my expectations of MSXML and
Xalan, both of which should be producing a properly constructed empty element.
If you think you are engaging everything properly, then please post a short
(15 line?) complete stylesheet that illustrates your results so that others
can run your stylesheet on their system.
I hope this helps.
....................... Ken
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