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david mareSubject: forcing empty elements to have full open/close tags
Author: david mare
Date: 16 Nov 2007 09:08 PM
Is there any way to force XQuery to output a open/close pair of tags eg. <mytag></mytag> when an element is empty, rather than the abbreviated form <mytag/>

For example: if my input document is:
<root>
<tag1>foo</tag1>
<tag2></tag2>
</root>

And I query this document using this XQuery:
/root

The result is:
<root>
<tag1>foo</tag1>
<tag2/>
</root>

I need to preserve the empty element as <tag2></tag2>

How can I do this? Is there an output format directive or something I could use?
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Minollo I.Subject: forcing empty elements to have full open/close tags
Author: Minollo I.
Date: 17 Nov 2007 08:28 AM
David,
from the XML infoset point of view there is absolutely no difference between <tag2/> and <tag2></tag2>; that's why the serialization specs for XQuery 1.0 and XSLT 2.0 don't say anything about that when generating XML (http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-xquery-serialization/)

The only case in which the serialization specs deal with minimized tag format is when XHTML (http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-xquery-serialization/#xhtml-output) is used as the output method (just to keep compatibility with HTML browser behaviors). And that should help you; using DataDirect XQuery as the XQuery processor, this:
declare option ddtek:serialize "method=xhtml";
<tag1><tag2/><tag3></tag3></tag1>

...will generate what you want:

<tag1><tag2></tag2><tag3></tag3></tag1>
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david mareSubject: forcing empty elements to have full open/close tags
Author: david mare
Date: 18 Nov 2007 11:40 PM
Thanks, that works!

Just as a follow-up question, I don't suppose the Saxon query processor could do a similar thing?

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Minollo I.Subject: forcing empty elements to have full open/close tags
Author: Minollo I.
Date: 18 Nov 2007 11:50 PM
Yes, it does; you'll need to use:
declare option saxon:output "method=xhtml";

BTW, you'll be able to see that only using the Saxon API directly, not from inside Stylus Studio (as Stylus intercepts the output for debugging/backmapping purposes, and serializes it ignoring the XHTML directive).
   
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