AW: [xml] basefont issue with xsltproc?

["David Santamauro" <david santamauro snet net>]

Ahhaa... thanks, Morus, that never even crossed my mind! Saxon and XT both
generated the desired HTML so my next assumption was an issue with libxslt.

appreciate it,

David


> -----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Morus Walter [mailto:morus walter tanto-xipolis de]
> Gesendet: Monday, June 03, 2002 2:26 AM
> An: david santamauro snet net
> Cc: Xml-Gome
> Betreff: Re: [xml] basefont issue with xsltproc?
>
>
> David Santamauro writes:
> > The data seems like it is added to result tree but not
> output...? Am I going
> > crazy?
> basefont is an empty element and the html serializer "refuses" to generate
> output for this.
> If you change the output method to xml you will see your doubled content.
>
> Of course one can argue about the html serializer here.
> Should it output any tree as is, even if this is corrupt html and use
> html rules just to supress end tags for empty tags that are emtpy in the
> tree or let these rules have more effect in the case of non conformant
> html.
>
> I had a similar problem with p endtags some time ago, but I don't think
> that the discussion came to a clear result then
> (see: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xslt/2001-November/msg00023.html
> and the following mails)
>
> greetings
>       Morus