Hi Brendan,
The fact that you can duplicate the behavior in more than one processor
indicates it's not simply a processor bug.
Could you be more explicit please about a couple of details?
* what is the actual name of the element(s) involved (which you're calling
'foo')?
* what output method, if any, is designated in the stylesheet?
* what is the root element of your output?
These questions are relevant because a serializer is allowed to write
old-fashioned SGML syntax when outputting with the HTML method, for
elements that are empty in HTML (img, br, hr, meta etc.). (HTML uses SGML
syntax, after all.)
If this is the problem, the solution is as easy as tweaking the output
method to "xml".
Cheers,
Wendell
At 03:21 PM 1/6/2004, you wrote:
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?
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