RE: tag minimisation

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

Sure, the trailing slash <../> isn't recognised so the minimised element
is treated as an opening one (effectively putting the following-sibling
'inside' as you say)

Another problem comes with expressions - this will work:

<div></div>
<div
style="position:relative;top:expression(-previousSibling.scrollHeight)">

but this causes the error 'line 0: object expected'

<div/>
<div
style="position:relative;top:expression(-previousSibling.scrollHeight)">

...really nasty in a large file.

Ultimately all of this pain could lifted by a few talented processor
writers ;)

Or of course, if anyone could tell me how to modify my own copy of
saxon/xalan to prevent minimisation, that would be equally great.

cheers
andrew



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Américo Albuquerque [mailto:aalbuquerque@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 10 September 2002 17:32
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: 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>
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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