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Posted to j-users@xalan.apache.org by Marco <br...@tin.it> on 2004/06/11 11:49:02 UTC

Xalan XHTML output (bug?)

If I use
<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" 
xalan:indent-amount="3" />

Xalan transforms all the empty

<element></element>

in

<element />

That's right for all the EMPTY elements of the xhtml language (as br, 
hr, input). But (according to the xhtml DTD) some elements (as div) 
require a separate closing tag.
This usually causes BIG browser problems...
Try the following xhtml in your browser:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" 
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
    <head>
       <title>test</title>
    </head>
    <body>
       <div style="background-color: yellow;">
          <div />
       </div>
      <p>test</p>
    </body>
</html>

The test paragraph shouldn't have a yellow background, but it has 
(tested on IE and Firefox).

Is there an option to say "Xalan don't touch all those 
<element></element> !"?

Thanks,
Marco