Avoid collapsed tags

[Hvid Hat]

I'm using <xsl:copy-of select="content " /on the following XML:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<content>
<p></p>
<p>This is a paragraph</p>
<p></p>
<p>This is another paragraph</p>
</content>

The empty paragraphs, <p></p>, become <p/when outputted to the browser.

How can I prevent this? I want to add an empty comment (or something else?)
so the paragraph tags aren't collapsed, eg. <p><!-- --></p>

[Martin Honnen]

Hvid Hat wrote:

I'm using <xsl:copy-of select="content " /on the following XML:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<content>
<p></p>
<p>This is a paragraph</p>
<p></p>
<p>This is another paragraph</p>
</content>

The empty paragraphs, <p></p>, become <p/when outputted to the browser.

How can I prevent this?

If you want to output HTML then make sure you use
<xsl:output method="html"/>
that should fix that.

I want to add an empty comment (or something else?)
so the paragraph tags aren't collapsed, eg. <p><!-- --></p>

I don't think you need the comment, xsl:output method="html" should suffice.
As for adding a comment you would need
<xsl:template match="p[not(node())]">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
<xsl:comment/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
then you need to make sure you don't use xsl:copy-of select="content "
but instead apply-templates.

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Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/