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RE: how to match <br/> tag
- From: Jeff Beadle <Jbeadle at manh dot com>
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:23:22 -0400
- Subject: RE: [xsl] how to match <br/> tag
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Vasu may have been using to "br" to illustrate that an element instance with
no descendant elements may be expressed in its abbreviated form:
"<br/> is a short form of <br></br>"
But, be advised that thinking any element with no descendant elements can be
expressed this way, becase that's not true ... especially in the case of the
xhtml:br and possibly the html:{BR | Br | bR | br} element.
Being able to express an element in the abbreviated manner is totally
dependant on the intent of the given elements schema.
In this case, xhtml:br or html:{BR | Br | bR | br} is an empty element, it
cannot have any attributes or descendant entities as <br></br> does, which
has one (empty) text node.
So, with respect to xhtml or html, "br" cannot be of the form <br></br>, it
must be (ignoring casing/namespace) <br />.
Because, <br></br> will not validate against the xhtml schema ... it may be
ok against the highly tolerant html schema--but, I'm not sure.
-Jeff
-----Original Message-----
From: Vasu Chakkera [mailto:vasucv@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 10:57 AM
To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
Subject: Re: [xsl] how to match <br/> tag
The element you are referring to is br not br/
<br/> just tells you that it is an empty(<br>) element..
you must understand that <br/> is a short form of <br></br>
so your code must read
<xsl:template match="br">
Vasu
>From: "ashu t" <aashut@rediffmail.com>
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>Subject: [xsl] how to match <br/> tag
>Date: 27 Jun 2002 14:23:35 -0000
>
>i am trying to convert html to wml using xslt
>i have written style sheet for few tags but when i wrote
>style sheet for <br/> it is giving error i have used
><xsl:template match="br/"> but it has given error then i tried
><xsl:template match="//br/"> but it is also giving error.
>can any one suggest me what should be the code for that.
>
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