Re: Self-closing elements upset some browsers

The identity transform part of my xsl is transferring html <a> links from
the input to the output as follows:

Input: <a name="o1399"></a><h2 class="heading2">Licensing</h2>
Output: <a name="o1399" shape="rect"/><h2 class="heading2">Licensing</h2>
...
- I don't want it, so if you can suggest how I can avoid it then good but,

my major problem, with these links (and similarly with <script /> elements
is that browsers do not like these 'self-closing' elements.

My solution for the script elements was to insert an <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
and thereby stretch them into a begin and end tag. You can see that I can't
do the same for the links because the space would appear (with blue
underline) in the output.

Any suggestions for forcing elements to use a start and end tag?

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