XSLT not closing my div tags properly

[abienz]

Hi there,

I've got a strange problem where when I perform a transformation on my XML to an XHTML document using an XSL file certain tags are closed incorrectly.

for example I've got this line in my XSL

<xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">
    <div id="topBar">
    </div>
    <xsl:apply-templates />
  </xsl:template>

When I run the transformation in my code I instead of getting

<div id="topBar">
</div>

I get

<div id="topBar"/>

I've noticed that this also happens with textareas, has anyone else noticed this, and or found a work around?

Any advice or guidance would be much appreciated.

Cheers,

Blaise

 

[mountainbiker]

Blaise,

What xsl processor are you using? It can be different among processors. Some have a setting regarding empty elements.

Is there a particular reason you want/need <div id="topBar"></div>?

You can try one of these with your processor:

<xsl:element name="div">
  <xsl:attribute name="id">topBar</xsl:attribute>
  <xsl:text/>
</xsl:element>

<xsl:element name="div">
  <xsl:attribute name="id">topBar</xsl:attribute>
  <xsl:comment> empty <xsl:comment>
</xsl:element>

<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><![CDATA[<div id="topBar"></div>]]></xsl:text>

- mb

 

[jaybytez]

What is your output type? With an output type of xml, the translation engine makes empty tags out of <div id="topBar"></div>. Have you tried changing the output type to html instead?