Re: element minimisation (again)

i agree with David. its not a bug. <node></node> and
<node/> are same according to the spec.

Cheers,
Wendell

--- Andrew Welch <AWelch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Someone just asked me why <node/> was coming out of
> the transform as
> <node></node>.  After trying out some of the
> processors, it seems msxml
> x when used with an identity transform doesn't
> minimise.
>
> So, this stylesheet:
>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
> <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
>   <xsl:copy>
>     <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
>   </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> On this source:
>
> <node/>
>
> Produced:
>
> Msxml3        <node></node>
> Msxml4        <node></node>
> Saxon         <node/>
> Xalan         <node/>
>
> Now the reason this has particularly annoyed me is
> because I've always
> wanted the ability to tell a processor 'don't
> minimise the elements'.
> After a few long dicussions on the list it seemed
> that it wasn't really
> feasible (or there wasn't enough momentum behind it)
> to have a feature
> like this, but obviously that's just down to
> interpretation.  Lots of
> people have had the same issue, and lots of people
> are adding &_#160;'s
> to their output to prevent it.
>
> This just appears to be an MSXML bug, but it
> would've been nice to the
> option.

======================================================================
Wendell Piez                            mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Mulberry Technologies, Inc.                http://www.mulberrytech.com
17 West Jefferson Street                    Direct Phone: 301/315-9635
Suite 207                                          Phone: 301/315-9631
Rockville, MD  20850                                 Fax: 301/315-8285
----------------------------------------------------------------------
  Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML
======================================================================