open and closed tag merged into one using HTML output

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Subject: open and closed tag merged into one using HTML output
From: "David Smith" <david.smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 14:20:24 -0600

Hi, I am trying to find the way that I should resolve a problem I am having. In the XSL file, I specify

<textarea name="text"><xsl:value-of select="/root/description"/></textarea>

but when it is parsed, as there is no /root/description element, or it's empty, it comes out like this:

<textarea name="text"/>

which doesn't show right in any browser. I have got the output set to HTML with the following

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl = "http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version = "1.0" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/strict"> <xsl:output method = "html" indent="yes" version="4.0"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" >

The parser I am using is the Xalan Java processor. I ran the processor XSL script and it gave this output Vendor: Apache Software Foundation Vendor URL: http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j

Can anyone suggest what I may do to make this work?

Thanks
Dave Smith

XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list

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open and closed tag merged into one using HTML output David Smith - Wed, 26 Feb 2003 15:18:08 -0500 (EST) <= J.Pietschmann - Wed, 26 Feb 2003 16:05:02 -0500 (EST) David Smith - Wed, 26 Feb 2003 16:25:13 -0500 (EST) Mike Brown - Wed, 26 Feb 2003 17:39:32 -0500 (EST) David Smith - Wed, 26 Feb 2003 17:52:18 -0500 (EST)

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