XSLT Output - Well Formed HTML?? 1

[webtank]

I am performing XSLT transformations on templates that are built using well-formed HTML i.e. all tags are closed like this <br/>

The transformation works fine, but the HTML output generated seems to have removed the closing tags from my <br/> nodes (making them <br>), and now the output is not well formed.

This means I cannot add the resulting HTML data to a further XML message without having to use a (really rough) routine to run through adding all of the closing tags back in again!

Am I missing something?

Cheers,
Webtank.

 

[bobcha]

If you want to generate HTML that is also XML, then what you want to generate is XHTML. If this is the case, make sure the method attribute for the <xslutput> is &quot;xml&quot;, and have the appropriate doctype. For example, your stylesheet could begin like this:

<?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;UTF-8&quot;?>
<xsl:stylesheet version=&quot;1.0&quot; xmlns:xsl=&quot;[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform&quot;>[/URL]
	<xsl:output method=&quot;xml&quot; indent=&quot;yes&quot; cdata-section-elements=&quot;script style&quot; doctype-public=&quot;-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN&quot;/>

For more info on XHTML, see

http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/#xhtml1.

 

[webtank]

That worked a treat, thank you very much!