RE: tag minimisation

Hi.

The following elements don't 'inherit' the style, they are simply put
'inside' the <div/> element

So, to a web browser
<div style="font-weight:bold"/>
<div>foo</div>
is the same as
<div style="font-weight:bold">
 <div>foo</div>
</div>

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From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andrew Welch
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 4:27 PM
To: Xsl-List (E-mail)
Subject:  tag minimisation


When elements like <div></div> get minimised by the processor to <div/>
it's *really* frustrating.

I cannot stress how annoying it is to find that because you have an
element in your data that is empty, you get a minimised ouput element
where all following elements 'inherit' the style...

For example:

<div style="font-weight:bold"/>
<div>foo</div>

will give you a bold 'foo'.

I appreciate that html/css is at fault, but surely its easy to add a
minimisation='no' extension until browsers catch up...?  That or
continue the advice of 'add a space to the end of the element to prevent
it getting minimised'...

At the moment I can see no real benefit of enforcing minimisation.

cheers
andrew

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