This may be a Saxon-specific question, but I'll start here as there may be
a general answer.
I am generating HTML, either as XHTML or HTML or HTML5 and I'm running
into issues with the handling of empty elements (meaning elements that
were or can be tagged as self-closed elements, e.g., <br>).
Doing a quick test with Saxon 9.6 and XSLT 2, given this input:
<p>A br element: before<br/>after</p>
And serializing it using method "html" the result is the expected:
<p>A br element: before<br>after
</p>
But for XHTML it's:
<p>A br element: before
<br></br>after
</p>
What I would like to is a self-closed BR element: <br/>.
Looking at the Saxon documentation I didn't see any Saxon-specific
serialization parameters that would control this behavior.
I realize I could implement my own serializer but I'm not keen to go to
that length if at all possible.
Is there a general solution that allows me to have XHTML or HTML5 output
with self-closing elements?
This comes up for me in several contexts:
- Generating XHTML as required for EPUB2 and Kindle documents
- Generating HTML as required for Web sites
- Generating HTML5 as required for EPUB3 and for use in HTML5-based Web
sites
I suspect that the real problem is generating XHTML when I should be
generating HTML. I need to explore that more, but I wanted to understand
my readily-available serialization options first.
Thanks,
Eliot
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Eliot Kimber, Owner
Contrext, LLC
http://contrext.com
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