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Empty textarea tag in stylesheet


I have read over the history of this topic on the list and find the last
posting was about ten months ago. I have tried all the approaches suggested
(e.g., changing the output type to "text/html", putting a #&160; between
the opening and closing tags) and find that neither of them works. Let
me be precise on that. Neither of these work with Xalan or the Oracle
parser. The Microsft parser has no trouble outputting both an opening
and a closing textarea tag when there is no content, even without changing
the output type to text/html, but nothing so far has got me around this
with the Oracle parser, which is required since I am doing the transform
from a PL/SQL procedure.

If the issue isn't immediately clear, let me explain. When the parser
collapses an empty textarea tag set (<textarea></textarea> becomes <textarea
/>), the browser simply puts all of the document beyond that point into
the textarea and displays it as literal, rather than parsing it as HTML
markup.

I'm using one stylesheet and a data document to produce a second stylesheet
which will, in turn, be combined with a second data document to produce,
finally, HTML. At this point, the only thing standing in my way is this
collapsed textarea tag.

I'm hoping that the state of the art has advanced since this subject
was last raised, and that one of you knows a way to force an empty opening
and closing tag into the second stylesheet.

Thanks for any light you can shed.

-- 
Charles Knell
cknell@onebox.com - email
 

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