nospam@nospam.net wrote:

> I'm trying to transform an xml file that contains empty short elements like
> the following:
>
> <element attrib="abc"/>
>
> using the XmlTransform class. But I cannot seem to preserve the short format
> as everytime it get's converted to the longer format of:
>
> <element attrib="abc"></element>
>
> I need to preserve the shorter format, has anyone else had this problem or
> got a solution?

Demon News wrote:
> They are using Biztalk, and what is actually happening is that <element
> attrib="abc"/> is actually being converted to:
>
> <element attrib="abc">
> </element>
>
> which, because of the whitespace is causing problems. I could probably get
> round this by using the indent="no" parameter in xslt but for readability
> that puts everything on one line and I don't see why this should be
> happening.

"Pascal Schmitt" <newsgroup@cebra.nu> wrote in message
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> Demon News wrote:
>> They are using Biztalk, and what is actually happening is that <element
>> attrib="abc"/> is actually being converted to:
>>
>> <element attrib="abc">
>> </element>
>>
>> which, because of the whitespace is causing problems. I could probably
>> get round this by using the indent="no" parameter in xslt but for
>> readability that puts everything on one line and I don't see why this
>> should be happening.
>
> I only use indent="yes" for debugging, later when I'm sure the output is
> correct and only read by XML-parsers, I set indent="no".
>
> But IIRC, if you avoid whitespace in the XSLT, there won't be any in the
> output either. For example:
>
> <out:element><xslt:attribute name="attrib">
> <xslt:value-of select="'foo'" /<
> </xslt:attribute></out:element>
>
> xslt:attribute will be replaced, so you can use whitespace inside it.
>
>
> --
> Pascal Schmitt

"Martin Honnen" <mahotrash@yahoo.de> wrote in message
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>
>
> nospam@nospam.net wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to transform an xml file that contains empty short elements
>> like
>> the following:
>>
>> <element attrib="abc"/>
>>
>> using the XmlTransform class. But I cannot seem to preserve the short
>> format
>> as everytime it get's converted to the longer format of:
>>
>> <element attrib="abc"></element>
>>
>> I need to preserve the shorter format, has anyone else had this problem
>> or
>> got a solution?
>
> There are lots of people who report that "problem" but the usual attempt
> to "solve" it is to explain that in terms of XML
> <element attrib="abc"/>
> and
> <element attrib="abc"></element>
> are absolutely equivalent so any application processing the transformation
> output as XML should not have any problems or make a difference.
> Why do you think you need to preserve <element />?
>
> --
>
> Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
> http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

"Martin Honnen" <mahotrash@yahoo.de> wrote in message
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>
>
> nospam@nospam.net wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to transform an xml file that contains empty short elements
>> like
>> the following:
>>
>> <element attrib="abc"/>
>>
>> using the XmlTransform class. But I cannot seem to preserve the short
>> format
>> as everytime it get's converted to the longer format of:
>>
>> <element attrib="abc"></element>
>>
>> I need to preserve the shorter format, has anyone else had this problem
>> or
>> got a solution?
>
> There are lots of people who report that "problem" but the usual attempt
> to "solve" it is to explain that in terms of XML
> <element attrib="abc"/>
> and
> <element attrib="abc"></element>
> are absolutely equivalent so any application processing the transformation
> output as XML should not have any problems or make a difference.
> Why do you think you need to preserve <element />?
>
> --
>
> Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
> http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/