RE: how to match <br/> tag

Vasu may have been using to "br" to illustrate that an element instance with
no descendant elements may be expressed in its abbreviated form:

    "<br/> is a short form of <br></br>"

But, be advised that thinking any element with no descendant elements can be
expressed this way, becase that's not true ... especially in the case of the
xhtml:br and possibly the html:{BR | Br | bR | br} element.

Being able to express an element in the abbreviated manner is totally
dependant on the intent of the given elements schema.

In this case, xhtml:br or html:{BR | Br | bR | br} is an empty element, it
cannot have any attributes or descendant entities as <br></br> does, which
has one (empty) text node.

So, with respect to xhtml or html, "br" cannot be of the form <br></br>, it
must be (ignoring casing/namespace) <br />.

Because, <br></br> will not validate against the xhtml schema ... it may be
ok against the highly tolerant html schema--but, I'm not sure.

-Jeff


-----Original Message-----
From: Vasu Chakkera [mailto:vasucv@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 10:57 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  how to match <br/> tag


The element you are referring to is br not br/
<br/> just tells you that it is an empty(<br>) element..
you must understand that <br/> is a short form of <br></br>
so your code must read
<xsl:template match="br">
Vasu

>From: "ashu  t" <aashut@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject:  how to match <br/> tag
>Date: 27 Jun 2002 14:23:35 -0000
>
>i am trying to convert html to wml using xslt
>i have written style sheet for few tags but when i wrote
>style sheet for <br/> it is giving error i have used
><xsl:template match="br/"> but it has given error then i tried 
><xsl:template match="//br/"> but it is also giving error.
>can any one suggest me what should be the code for that.
>
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