If you use the XML output method then the system assumes that the output is
going to be read by an XML parser and that any well-formed XML
representation of the output will be OK.

I still don't understand why you are using the XML output method and then
sending the output to something that doesn't accept well-formed XML.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: A D [mailto:hopethisisstillthere@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 04 June 2007 15:43
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  XSL transformation removing closing tag 
> for empty div
> 
> Is there any way I can do this without tweaking the xsl? I 
> mean, I would like to do this on the server side and ask it 
> not to remove the closing tags before transforming. Here is 
> the xsl declaration i use:
> 
> <xsl:stylesheet 
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
> 
> and I set the content type to text/xml before transforming.