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Subject: Re: Understanding why <tag></tag> is the way it is (was Re: IE Client side transformation issue)
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 21:49:03 -0400
Re:  Understanding why <tag></tag> is the way it is (wa
At 2007-08-03 22:58 +0200, Manfred Staudinger wrote:
On 03/08/07, G. Ken Holman <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> t:\ftemp>xslt-msxsl manfred.xsl manfred.xsl con
> <body>
> <div style="display: none"></div>
> <div style="display: none"></div>
> </body>
In my test the last div is serialized as <div style="display: none" /> !

> Why do you think the serialization by MSXML of the two is the same?
My turn, sure.

:{)}


I've set up a test at...

Thank you ... by downloading your test I found the difference.


Thinking about possible causes, what version of MSXML do you use?

It isn't a difference the version of the MSXML processor ... the difference turns out to be in the stylesheet markup. This took a while to narrow down, but the example below shows that MSXML modifies its behaviour when the stylesheet literal result element is in the HTML namespace. There is only a one-line difference between manfred.xsl and manfred3.xsl, that being the namespace declaration.


So we were both right about our respective tests ... we were just comparing apples and oranges.

But still MSXML is going beyond the specification by noting the choice of empty element syntax used by an XML instance. Stylesheet writers cannot depend on this in the general case as it is an MSXML quirk.

An interesting exercise, Manfred ... thank you.

. . . . . . . . . . . . Ken

t:\ftemp>type manfred.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                 version="1.0">

<xsl:output method="html"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
   <body>
     <div style="display: none"></div>
     <div style="display: none"/>
   </body>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

t:\ftemp>xslt-msxsl manfred.xsl manfred.xsl con
<body>
<div style="display: none"></div>
<div style="display: none"></div>
</body>

t:\ftemp>type manfred3.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
                version="1.0">

<xsl:output method="html"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
   <body>
     <div style="display: none"></div>
     <div style="display: none"/>
   </body>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

t:\ftemp>xslt-msxsl manfred3.xsl manfred3.xsl con
<body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<div style="display: none"></div>
<div style="display: none"/>
</body>

t:\ftemp>


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