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Re: [xsl] Understanding why is the way it is (was Re: [xsl] IE Client side transformation issue)

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> but the first will not render well in IE, 

That's like sending fortran to a C compiler and complaing that it
doesn't work. IE is an HTML system so if you send something to IE it
gets parsed as HTML, whether or not it's valid XHTML is irrelevant.
If you want to send XHTML to IE (as XHTML) you need to put an
xml-stylesheet PI specifying a CSS or XSLT stylesheet that tells IE how
to render it. IE's default rendering of IE is as a folding tree view of
the XML markup.

> The opposite is also true, if the content is not defined as EMPTY in the 
> DTD (i.e, like a <p> tag), omitting the end-tag is allowed by the
> spec, 

it's allowed for some elements and not for others. You can also omit the
start tag in some cases as well (body, tbody head and html for example)

David



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