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Subject: Re: Understanding why <tag></tag> is the way it is (was Re: IE Client side transformation issue)
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:39:12 -0400

At 2007-08-03 20:37 +0200, you wrote:

On 03/08/07, G. Ken Holman <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > At 2007-08-03 19:19 +0200, Manfred Staudinger wrote: > >On 03/08/07, Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > There is a cdata-section-elements on xsl:output, but not a > > > never-minimize-elements attribute or something similar. > >There is no need for such an attribute, because MSXML3 handles > >the two cases differently. If you specify in your stylesheet > ><div style="display: none"/> it becomes <div style="display: none" /> > >(invalid html) > >but > ><div style="display: none"></div> becomes <div style="display: none"></div> > >in the output. > > > >Note that there is _no_ need to using nbsp or xsl:comment to ensure > >valid html ! > > I disagree with your summary above based on my own experiences that > when using the HTML serialization with MSXML and other tools. The > distinction you make is for XML serialization, not for HTML > serialization. Speaking only about serialization with MSXML this holds for both xsl:output methods, XML and HTML. Why do you think its different for HTML?

Because I demonstrated it in the earlier email ... copied below ... look at the end result ... manfred1.xsl uses method="html" and manfred2.xsl uses method="xml" and the serialization by MSXML is demonstratively different.

Why do you think the serialization by MSXML of the two is the same?

. . . . . . . . . . . Ken

t:\ftemp>type manfred.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                version="1.0">

<xsl:output method="html"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
  <body>
    <div style="display: none"></div>
    <div style="display: none"/>
  </body>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
t:\ftemp>xslt-msxsl manfred.xsl manfred.xsl con
<body>
<div style="display: none"></div>
<div style="display: none"></div>
</body>

t:\ftemp>xslt-saxon manfred.xsl manfred.xsl con
<body>
   <div style="display: none"></div>
   <div style="display: none"></div>
</body>
t:\ftemp>type manfred2.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                version="1.0">

<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
  <body>
    <div style="display: none"></div>
    <div style="display: none"/>
  </body>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
t:\ftemp>xslt-msxsl manfred2.xsl manfred2.xsl con
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
<body>
<div style="display: none"></div>
<div style="display: none" />
</body>

t:\ftemp>xslt-saxon manfred2.xsl manfred2.xsl con
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<body>
   <div style="display: none"/>
   <div style="display: none"/>
</body>
t:\ftemp>

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