How to preserve Empty XML Tags after XSLT - prevent collapsing them from to

Answer 1

No. The 2 are syntactically identical, so you shouldn't have to worry

Answer 2

Try this:

<script type="..." src="...">&#160;</script>

Your HTML output will be:

<script type="..." src="..."> </script>

The   prevents the collapsing but translates to a blank space. It's worked for me in the past.

Answer 3

<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">
<![CDATA[<div></div>]]>
</xsl:text>

This works fine with C#'s XslCompiledTransform class with .Net 2.0, but may very well fail almost anywhere else. Do not use unless you are programmatically doing the transofrm yourself; it is not portable at all.

Answer 4

It should not be a problem if it is or . However if you are using another tool which expects empty XML tags as way only, then you have a problem. A not very elegant way to do this will be adding a space between staring and ending 'B' tags through XSLT code.