> >No it is entirely up to the system how it linearises empty elements:
> >some XSLT systems use <p/> some <p></p> .Since every XML system will
> >treet these identically it shouldn't matter which you get.
> 
> Well, it does matter.
> 
It matters for HTML output but not for XML.

If you choose xsl:output method="html" you should always get <p></p>.

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