xslt and img

[stasJohn]

the code is simple enough

<xsl:stylesheet ... >
<xslutput method="html" />
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:for-each select="//image">
<img src="{@path}" alt="" width="300" height="255" />
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

When the img tag is printed out, it is not closed, which is invalid. That is, it outputs <img ... > instead of <img ... />

If I change the output method to xml, it outputs the img tag correctly, but it outputs "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>" at the beginning.

Any idea how to output a valid img tag?

thanks in advance.

 

[stasJohn]

I answered my own question above...

<xslutput method="xml" encoding="utf-8" indent="no"
omit-xml-declaration="yes" media-type="text/html"/>

the "omit-xml-decleration" keeps "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>" from being outputted.