[Bug 1091] New - Unusable HTML-transforming after upgrading to Xalan 2.x (Java)

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http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1091

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+ | Unusable HTML-transforming after upgrading to Xalan 2.x (Java)             |
+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+ |        Bug #: 1091                        Product: XalanJ2                 |
+ |       Status: NEW                         Version: 2.0.1                   |
+ |   Resolution:                            Platform: PC                      |
+ |     Severity: Major                    OS/Version:                         |
+ |     Priority: High                      Component: org.apache.xalan.transf |
+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+ |  Assigned To: xalan-dev@xml.apache.org                                     |
+ |  Reported By: kingrob00@hotmail.com                                        |
+ |      CC list: Cc:                                                          |
+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+ |          URL:                                                              |
+ +============================================================================+
+ |                              DESCRIPTION                                   |
+ We've been runnig Xalan since 1999, mainly using the XML to HTML transforming 
+ functions. We have plenty of XSL files in production. 
+ 
+ Now we've upgraded from Xalan 1.x to 2, even tried 2.0.1 - all Java versions. 
+ The problem is that some tags that used to be transformed for example <BR/> to 
+ <BR>, which works much better with Netscape, doesn't any more!! In the new 2.x 
+ versions <BR/> isn't transformed which have the effect that Netscape(4.x) 
+ ignores it and the whole page looks like disaster. This is also a problem with 
+ other tags like <P/> and <TD/>.
+ 
+ My eyes are bleeding from trying to find some useful information about this and 
+ I've thoroughfully search all your webpages but can't find a solution.
+ 
+ This problem comes both for the command-line utility with the option -HTML and 
+ the api-version where
+ 
+       transformer.getOutputProperty( OutputKeys.METHOD )
+ 
+ gives me "html".
+ 
+ The xsl-files are all defined as follows.
+ 
+ <xsl:output indent="yes" method="html" encoding="ISO-8859-1" 
+ media-type="text/html"/>
+ 
+ It's easy to reproduce using 
+ 
+ java -classpath xxx org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process -HTML -V -IN foo.xml -XSL 
+ foo.xsl -OUT foo.htm
+ 
+ ...with appropriate foo-files and using both Xalan1.x and Xalan2.x. It will show 
+ different behaviour considering tabs like <BR/>.
+ 
+ This is a major problem and means that we can't upgrade to the new version. I 
+ can't even work around the problem using say <BR></BR> because it transformes to 
+ <BR/> and ignores by Netscape. What can I do???