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[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: Self-closing elements upset some browsers
 I am importing legacy into a 3rd party tool and I find my self in the situation where I need valid XHTML _and_ end-tags - this is not my decision. I tried using the <xsl:output method="html"> but it inserts <meta> without a closing tag and the file becomes invalid xml and subsequently fails to import. Well xsl:output method="html" is for HTML 4, not for XHTML. As said, for XHTML to be served as text/html you would need xsl:output method="xhtml" but that is only supported by XSLT 2.0 processors. Incidentally David, the problem with empty script elements, that is <script href="" /> style, was exhibited by Firefox. It basically missed the end-tag and assumed everything was script until the closing tag of an actual non-empty script further down the file. It (very usefully) also showed this behaviour in the syntax highlighting of it's source viewer. The proper MIME type for XHTML is application/xhtml+xml, if you serve your XHTML with that Content-Type then Firefox uses its XML parser and I am sure it will not have any problem with <script/>. The problem is that you serve your XHTML as text/html and then the browser uses its HTML parser and parses according to SGML rules and not XML rules. Therefore to serve XHTML as text/html the W3C recommends the following rules <URL:http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#guidelines> and xsl:output method="xhtml" enforces these rules. -- Martin Honnen http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/ 
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