RE: [xml] Self terminating tags

[Brett Robichaud <brobichaud digimarc com>]

I was talking about simple output from libXML.  If I add a new empty tag
using xmlNewTextChild() it is saved as <tag></tag> NOT as <tag/>.  I would
like the latter.

Can this be done?

-Brett-



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cyberthymia [mailto:cyberthymia yahoo co uk] 
> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 3:11 AM
> To: Brett Robichaud
> Cc: xml gnome org
> Subject: Re: [xml] Self terminating tags
>
>
> Ummm
>
> Please ignore my last post - the variable should be set to 0, 
> which it is by default.
>
> In a blatant attempt to try and recover some dignity, is this 
> XML being generated from an XSLT transform?
>
> I've had a quick look in the source and there appears to be a 
> problem where if you are doing something like 
> <tag><xsl:value-of select="..."></tag> and the select doesn't 
> actually return anything, then libxml is still trying to 
> output an empty text element instead of an empty tag.
>
> I'll fix this and post a patch this afternoon.
>
> Richard
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cyberthymia" <cyberthymia yahoo co uk>
> To: "Brett Robichaud" <brobichaud digimarc com>
> Cc: <xml gnome org>
> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 10:34 AM
> Subject: Re: [xml] Self terminating tags
>
>
> > Hi
> >
> > Out of curiosity, you wouldn't happen to be talking about the XML 
> > output from libxml, would you?
> >
> > If so, there is a global variable "xmlSaveNoEmptyTags" that 
> determines 
> > whether empty tags are output as <tag></tag> or <tag/>
> >
> > Set this variable to 1 before you call any of the functions to 
> > generate
> your
> > XML output.
> >
> > Richard
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Brett Robichaud" <brobichaud digimarc com>
> > To: <veillard redhat com>
> > Cc: <xml gnome org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 10:50 PM
> > Subject: RE: [xml] Self terminating tags
> >
> >
> > > Here is a very simplified version of what I'm trying to do:
> > >
> > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> > > <metadata>
> > > <mosaic width="128" height="128" loc="mosaic1.gwmr"/> </metadata>
> > >
> > > Using libXML I can only figure out how to do this:
> > >
> > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> > > <metadata>
> > > <mosaic width="128" height="128" loc="mosaic1.gwmr"></mosaic> 
> > > </metadata>
> > >
> > > -Brett-
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Daniel Veillard [mailto:veillard redhat com]
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 2:43 PM
> > > > To: Brett Robichaud
> > > > Cc: 'xml gnome org'
> > > > Subject: Re: [xml] Self terminating tags
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 02:38:52PM -0800, Brett Robichaud wrote:
> > > > > Using 2.4.28 of libXML under Windows I can only seem to get
> > > > something
> > > > > like
> > > > > this:
> > > > > <MyTag attrib1="Hello" attrib2="goodbye"></MyTag>
> > > >
> > > > You have a problem:
> > > >
> > > >    paphio:~/XML -> cat tst.xml
> > > >    <MyTag attrib1="Hello" attrib2="goodbye" />
> > > >    paphio:~/XML -> xmllint tst.xml
> > > >    <?xml version="1.0"?>
> > > >    <MyTag attrib1="Hello" attrib2="goodbye"/>
> > > >    paphio:~/XML ->
> > > >
> > > > Provide complete example reproducable with xmllint . See
> > > >    http://xmlsoft.org/bugs.html
> > > >
> > > > Daniel
> > > >
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