XSLT self-closing tags issue

Question

I am using xslt to transform an xml file to html. The .net xslt engine keeps serving me self-closing tags for empty tags.

Example:

Answer 1

Just experienced the same issue with PHP 5's XSL, with output/@method=html. Seems that assigning an empty value attribute will cause elements to be output as invalid non-self-closing, non-closed tags:

results in:

One possible solution is to conditionally add the attribute:

resulting in: