[xsl] Saxon 9.4 <bold></bold> Transformed to (newline)</bold> Problem

List members,

Due to some batch processing, some of my input XML may have empty elements.  

Here is some sample XML:
<level1>
<para> Here is some text inside a para tag. <bold></bold> Note that the 'bold' 
element before the word Note is empty.  I would like it to stay that way 
without the insertion of a newline.</para> </level1>


When I transform this XML, using Saxon 9.4, the <bold></bold> element is 
getting converted similar to the following:
<level1>
<para> Here is some text inside a para tag. 
         <bold/> Note that the 'bold' element before the word Note is empty.  I 
would like it to stay that way.</para> </level1>


The Problem:
Due to further batch processing needs, I do not want the insertion of a newline 
before the <bold/> element, which is being created after running an XSLT 
transformation on the sample XML above.  (XMLSpy does not insert the newline, 
by the way, but I want to use Saxon for my transformation.)  In my xsl file I 
do not have an explicit template match for the 'bold' element. 

My XSL:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; 
xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"; 
xmlns:mcc="http://www.municode.com/xslt";>

<xsl:strip-space elements="*" />
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>

<!-- To Get:  {$InputDocPath} -->
<xsl:include href="./MCC_LIB.xsl"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
        <xsl:result-document href="{$InputDocPath}/Book_ALL.xml">
                <xsl:apply-templates select="node()" />
        </xsl:result-document>
</xsl:template> 
        
<xsl:template match="book">
                <xsl:element name="book">
                        <xsl:element name="bookinfo">
                                <xsl:element name="title"></xsl:element>
                                <xsl:element name="subtitle"></xsl:element>
                        </xsl:element>
                        <xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/>  
                </xsl:element>
</xsl:template>


<xsl:template match="level1|level2|level3|level4|level5|level6">
        <xsl:copy-of select="./node()" copy-namespaces="no" /> </xsl:template>


<!-- CATCH-ALL ==================================================== --> 
        <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
                <xsl:copy-of select="./node()" copy-namespaces="no" />
        </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>



Looking in the Saxon documentation, I was not able to find a switch to control 
the transformation behavior that changes the <bold></bold> to (newline)<bold/>.

I'd rather not use XMLSpy since all my other batch transformations are using 
Saxon.
If there is a configuration switch for Saxon, could someone direct me where I 
may learn about it.  

Or, would it be more practical to write a template to remove the "empty" 
<bold></bold> element, or better yet, remove all empty elements?  I don't know 
how this would be written, and would appreciate any insights someone may offer.


Kind regards,

Raymond Lillibridge
Sr. Software Engineer
rlillibridge(_at_)municode(_dot_)com
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