Re: [xml] empty tag

["Alex Neblett" <alexneblett01 yahoo com>]

Hello!

Somewhat related, is it possible to preserve <tag></tag> rather than have it
convert to <tag/> when doing an xslt tranform?

I am using libexslt to transform xml into xhtml.

Sadly, the consumer of the xhtml content (to which I do not have source code
access) is issued and sometimes interprets <tag/> as <tag> then
"autocorrects" the xhtml by inserting a </tag> where it deems appropriate
causing all sorts of issues.

Presently, I do a second xslt transform to place comments inside empty tags
resulting in <tag><!-- DELETE THIS --></tag> as a poor workaround.

Probably, I am not the first person to encounter this problem and am also
open to alternative suggestions as to how to solve this issue.

Kind Regards,

Alex

-----Original Message-----
From: xml-bounces gnome org [mailto:xml-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of
Daniel Veillard
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 3:10 PM
To: Jean-Francois Dupont-Viel (QA/EMC)
Cc: xml gnome org
Subject: Re: [xml] empty tag

On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 03:46:12PM -0400, Jean-Francois Dupont-Viel (QA/EMC)
wrote:
> So what the function that I shall be using ? 

  1/ http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-xmlsave.html#xmlSaveToFilename
  2/ http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-xmlsave.html#xmlSaveDoc
  3/ http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-xmlsave.html#xmlSaveClose

> xmlThrDefSaveNoEmptyTags ? 

Very bad idea it's just an accessor for the thread global variable in thread
local storage used internally.

Daniel

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