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[jira] Commented: (XALANJ-1906) [xhtml output] Empty element form for non EMPTY declared elements

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Johans Marvin Taboada Villca commented on XALANJ-1906:
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Vote to solve this issue.

I'm having same issue but this time with empty anchor elements and CSS. I'll quote Sourceforge's https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=373747&aid=1803803&group_id=21935

"
Resulting xhtml output arises Mozilla's #265324 in Core component (same
problem in IE).

Generated empty anchor (<a id="some-id" />) element give CSS problems when
applying CSS styling, example css snippet:

a
{
color: blue;
text-decoration: underline;
}

a:hover
{
background: rgb(75%,75%,100%);
color: blue;
text-decoration: underline;
}
"

> C.3. Element Minimization and Empty Element Content

It's not a rule, rather guidelines, but I think compatibility it's Xalan-J's concern. Maybe there could be a ''compatibility'' flag for XHTML output where noticed in XSL stylesheets (an extension)?.

> [xhtml output] Empty element form for non EMPTY declared elements
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: XALANJ-1906
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XALANJ-1906
>             Project: XalanJ2
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Serialization
>    Affects Versions: 2.2.0
>         Environment: Operating System: All
> Platform: All
>            Reporter: Marco
>            Priority: Minor
>
> - The stylesheet:
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> >
> > <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
> >
> >   <xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" indent="yes"
> >             omit-xml-declaration="no" doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
> Strict//EN"
> >         doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd" />
> >
> >   <xsl:template match="/">
> >     <html>
> >       <head>
> >     <title>bug test</title>
> >       </head>
> >       <body>
> >     <div></div>
> >       </body>
> >     </html>
> >   </xsl:template>
> >
> > </xsl:stylesheet>
> - The output:
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
> > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
> > <html>
> > <head>
> > <title>bug test</title>
> > </head>
> > <body>
> > <div />
> > </body>
> > </html>
> - The standards:
> > Empty-element tags MAY be used for any element which has no content, 
> > whether or not it is declared using the keyword EMPTY.
> > For interoperability, the empty-element tag SHOULD be used, and
> > SHOULD only be used, for elements which are declared EMPTY.
> (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-starttags)
> > C.3. Element Minimization and Empty Element Content
> > Given an empty instance of an element whose content model 
> > is not EMPTY (for example, an empty title or paragraph) do
> > not use the minimized form (e.g. use <p> </p> and not <p />).
> (http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#guidelines)
> - The patch:
> Elements like <p> or <div> aren't declared as EMPTY in the XHTML DTD.
> According to XML and XHTML standards, the <div></div> form should be used
> instead of <div/>. Both are XML (and XHTML) valid, but the second leads to
> strange problems with some browsers (guess who --- IE).
> Hope this helps,
> Marco

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