Re: Preventing tags from collapsing

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Subject: Re: Preventing tags from collapsing
From: "Joe Fawcett" <joefawcett@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 14:25:40 +0100

----- Original Message ----- From: "ben senior" <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 2:11 PM Subject: Preventing tags from collapsing

We have yet to find a way to stop tags containing no content from being collapsed :

e.g.
<script></script> is always output as <script/> or
<textarea></textarea> as <textarea/>
This is sending us barking as browsers do not treat the two different renditions equally.

Does anybody have any suggestion?

Thanks,

Ben

Sounds like you're trying to output xhtml, if xsl:output method is set to html this shouldn't happen. As the most widely used browser, for better or for worse this is still IE, doesn't support xhtml you're fighting a losing battle. Unless you are targetting an audience where the browser can be specified you'll need a workaround. For script can you test if the content is empty and if so output a script comment (//this is a comment, for example)? For textarea it depends, can you have a single space?

Joe

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