XSLT self-closing tags issue

Question

I am using xslt to transform an xml file to html. The .net xslt engine keeps serving me self-closing tags for empty tags.

Example:

<div class="test"></div> 

becomes

<div class="test" />

The former is valid html, while the latter is illegal html and renders badly. My question is : How do I tell the xslt engine (XslCompiledTransform) to not use self-closing tags.

If it's not possible, how can I tell my browser (IE6+ in this case) to interpret self-closing tags correctly.

Answer 1

Change your xsl:output method to be html (instead of xml).

Or add it if you haven't already got the element

<xsl:output method="html"/>

Answer 2

A workaround can be to insert a comment element to force generation of non self closing:

<script type="text/javascript" src="nowhere.js">
<xsl:comment></xsl:comment>
</script>

It is not a pretty soloution, but it works :-)

/Sten