try <xsl:text
disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;ul></xsl:text><xsl:apply-templates/>(or
whatever)<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;/ul></xsl:text>

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of David
Carlisle
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 8:27 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  html output



> However, it seems the empty list <ul></ul> still get translated to
> <ul/>,

which XSLT system are you using (sounds like a bug) the html output
method should not use XML empty element syntax.

David

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