Re: end-tag minimization problem?

--tth: 1184

   It seems highly implausible that any stylesheet will produce different
   results for <a></a> and for <a/>, because mainstream XML parsers report both
   these things to the "application" (in this case, the XSLT processor) in
   exactly the same way. So you'll need to provide some convincing evidence.

   Michael Kay
   http://www.saxonica.com/


There's the real world, and then there's Seattle....

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:output encoding="utf-8"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<a/>
<a></a>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

$ msxsl.exe empty.xsl empty.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><a /><a></a>

msxsl preserves (sometimes, if it feels like it) the style of empty
element used in the source.

David

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