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

There are a few things you need to be careful:

1. In your xsl use < xsl:output method='html'>
2. set OutputSettings in your output XmlWriter
3. in the Html inside your xsl, don't set attributes in html tag like this < html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> but use < html> instead.

This is a piece of working code:

string xmlStr = "";
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.LoadXml(xmlStr);
string xslContents = @"





    




";
XslCompiledTransform xsl = new XslCompiledTransform();
xsl.Load(XmlReader.Create(new StringReader(xslContents)));
StringWriter result = new StringWriter();
using (XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Create(result, xsl.OutputSettings))
{
    xsl.Transform(doc, null, writer);
}
System.Diagnostics.Debug.Write( result.ToString());