XSLT - Turns <br/> into <br> ?

[JoeS]

I'm new to XSLT, it what our old website developer used but he has now left our company. I have been given the task of making our site output as valid XHTML as I can get it. Currently in the .XSL files I write self-closing tags like <br/> but in the output XHTML they come out as <br> and therefore the page doesn't validate. This happens for other self-closing tags like <img src=""/> too.

I don't really know XSLT so I don't know how I can fix this from happening. Any suggestions?!

[jkmyoung]

What xslt processor or process are you using?
Do you have an
<xsl:output> tag at the beginning, and if so, are you setting type="html" as opposed to "xml" or "xhtml"?

[JoeS]

Perfect - I changed it to 'xhtml' and it now outputs self-closing tags. Thanks you :)

One slight problem that's occuring now though - in the XSL there are these lines:

<!-- start the stylesheet -->
<xsl:template match="/">
	<xsl:apply-templates select="XML"/>
</xsl:template>

<!-- xml tempate -->
<xsl:template match="XML">

<p>test</p>

This is now causing this line to appear in my XHTML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<p>test<p/>

I'm sure this shouldn't be there?

[jkmyoung]

If you don't want it in there, then remove those lines. Or are you talking about the xml type declaration?

[JoeS]

yes this part shouldn't be output in the xhtml should it? i thought you only need this at the top of xml documents not xhtml webpages?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

[jkmyoung]

Ok, just add the attribute omit-xml-declaration="no " to the xsl:output node.

[JoeS]

That didn't work, but "omit-xml-declaration="ye s"" did :) Thanks ever so much for your help!