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RE: tag minimisation
- From: "Robert Koberg" <rob at koberg dot com>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 09:52:08 -0700
- Subject: RE: [xsl] tag minimisation
- Reply-to: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
Hi,
test for text(), if it is there write out the element, else don't.
-Rob
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com]On Behalf Of Andrew Welch
> Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 8:27 AM
> To: Xsl-List (E-mail)
> Subject: [xsl] tag minimisation
>
>
>
> When elements like <div></div> get minimised by the processor to <div/>
> it's *really* frustrating.
>
> I cannot stress how annoying it is to find that because you have an
> element in your data that is empty, you get a minimised ouput element
> where all following elements 'inherit' the style...
>
> For example:
>
> <div style="font-weight:bold"/>
> <div>foo</div>
>
> will give you a bold 'foo'.
>
> I appreciate that html/css is at fault, but surely its easy to add a
> minimisation='no' extension until browsers catch up...? That or
> continue the advice of 'add a space to the end of the element to prevent
> it getting minimised'...
>
> At the moment I can see no real benefit of enforcing minimisation.
>
> cheers
> andrew
>
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