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Hello (again ;-), some time ago I switched from using Xalan to Saxon (Saxon-B 9.1 since I need extensions) together with a switch over from XSL 1.0 to 2.0. With this change I ran into the heavily discussed problem of forbidden HTML characters (and unfortunately these are widely spread out in the data we need process). To have an easy way out I changed the output method from 'html' to 'xml', which solved the problem with the forbidden characters, but forced me to take special care of empty elements and e.g. need to introduce artificially empty spaces. An example: XML <root> ... <text></text> </root> XSL ... <xsl:template match="text"> <textarea name="text" style="width: 100%" rows="14" cols="100"> <xsl:value-of select="."/> </textarea> </xsl:template> leads to the 'textarea' tag not being closed properly and therefor the rest of the produced output appears in the textarea! Adding an artificial empty space solves this but gives in this case a predefined space in the textarea, which is not nice! So I found that if I use xhtml as output method, I a) get around the problem with the forbidden HTML chars and b) do not need to do the above described trick! BUT now I run into a new problem with '<br />' tag not properly being handled! I have a XLS loop dumping data into a single table cell and therefore need to forcibly end the line to get the right formatting: XML: ... <entry> <operator>Doe, John</operator> <operator>Mustermann, Max</operator> <operator>Kammering, Raimund</operator> </entry> XSL: <?xml version="1.0"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output method="xhtml" indent="no"/> ... <td> <xsl:for-each select="operator"> <xsl:value-of select="." /><br /> </xsl:for-each> </td> HTML: <td>Doe, John<br></br>Mustermann, Max<br></br>Kammering, Raimund<br></br></td> This is rendered by (m)any (tested Chrome, Safari (<- even shows wrong source code <br><br>!!) and IE in recent versions) as: Doe, John Mustermann, Max Kammering, Raimund -> two linefeeds instead of one! While if I use output method 'xml' I got: <td>Doe, John<br/>Mustermann, Max<br/>Kammering, Raimund<br/></td> which is nicely rendered as: Doe, John Mustermann, Max Kammering, Raimund Using output method 'html' I get: <td>Doe, John<br>Mustermann, Max<br>Kammering, Raimund<br></td> which is still rendered as wanted as: Doe, John Mustermann, Max Kammering, Raimund Long story short: I guess I did not do my homework about doctype, handling of <br></br> vs <br/> or even <br /> and that like... but is there an easy way out without searching and replacing all chars which are forbidden when using output method html? Raimund
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