[XALANJ-2120] HTML serialization of empty/unclosed tags should not be affected by content

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Invalid
• Affects Version/s: 2.7.1
• Component/s: Serialization
• Fix priority: fp4
• Assignee: Joanne Tong
• Reporter: David Marston
• Created: 19/May/05 04:34
• Updated: 31/Aug/05 02:39
• Resolved: 11/Aug/05 03:03

Description

We don't (yet) have a test case, but I observed that when the source document has:
<a><BR>text INSIDE a br</BR></a>
then an <xsl:copy-of select="a"/> should produce:
<a><BR>text INSIDE a br</a>
but XalanJ drops the <BR> entirely, at least in the copy-of case. Suggested rules of thumb:
1. Self-closing <BR/> becomes <BR>, which we already do
2. Starting <BR> becomes <BR>
3. Ending </BR> becomes nothing
and of course, likewise for the other tags listed in part 16.2 of the XSLT 1.0 spec. Notice that rules 2 and 3 work whether or not there is content between the <BR> and </BR>.