Re: [xsl] <br/> tags, xhtml output, and netscape

[Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech dot com>]

Brook,

The usual trick is to put a dummy attribute in there, e.g.

<br class="br"/>

to force the space. Netscape is okay with that.

FWIW, in your stylesheet saying <br /> is the same as saying <br/>: the 
space doesn't make any difference. You're specifying an element node for 
your result tree, not a tag.

This used to be a FAQ, but we haven't seen it in a while.

Cheers,
Wendell

At 12:31 PM 3/22/2002, you wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I've got <br_/>tags (the underscore represents a space) in my xsl and am
>outputing as xhtml with:
>
><xsl:output method="xml" doctype-system="DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"
>doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" version="1.0"
>encoding="ISO-8859-1" indent="no"/>
>
>  in the header.
>
>The html produced is great but, the break tags are outputed without the
>space i.e. <br/> instead of <br_/>. Netscape (4.x) doesn't deal with this
>very well, as expected. Changing the output method to "html" sorts the
>problem out, but I'd prefer to have valid xhtml.
>
>So my predictable question (and probably oft-asked, though I did have a root
>though the archives) is , how can I output my break tag with a space with
>method="xml"?


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