Re: Empty text area issue

  When this happens, the value-of returns nothing and the
  processor truncates <textarea></textarea> to <textarea /> on the way
  out.

It won't use this XML notation if you use the html output method, this
should be the default if your top level result element is html but you
can force it with

<xsl:output method="html"/>

If you are generating xhtml but trying to fool an html browser into
reading it, do something like
   <textarea>
        <xsl:value-of select="." />
<xsl:text> </xsl:text>
    </textarea>

which will make sure there is always at least a space there.

David

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