XSLT self-closing tags issue

This is related to the XslCompiledTransform class

here is a workaround:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/nareshjoshi/archive/2009/01/15/how-to-force-non-self-closing-tags-for-empty-nodes-when-using-xslcompiledtransform-class.aspx

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

If you are using XmlWriter as your ouput stream, use HTMLTextWriter instead. XMLWriter will reformat your HTML output back to XML.

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"/>

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