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Subject: RE: [xsl] how to close html tags : link, meta,...
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 12:48:32 -0400

At 12:06 PM 8/13/2003, you wrote:
What a good idea (or hack, if this is what you meant) - I've never
considered it, I don't know why...

<div>
  <dummy/>
</div>

Will stop the element being minimised, won't leave spaces all over your
output and won't incur any processing expense.

Way back at the beginning of this thread, yesterday, I suggested the usual workaround is to put a comment or dummy PI in there ... oh well.


Although, I still think we should have the option when output="xml" to
choose how empty elements are handled, this will do until output="xhtml"
comes along.

Like others, I find myself resisting the idea of extensions that allow us to make a difference where there should be none, just because of a broken processor. If the extension is local to a particular processor, it's merely confusing. If the extension is mandated by the spec, it muddies everything for all time just to deal with a problem of the moment. ("Don't fix IE, change every XSLT engine instead.") As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.


Cheers,
Wendell


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