[XALANJ-2440] Incorrect serialization of XML output

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Invalid
• Affects Version/s: 2.7.1
• Component/s: Serialization
• Environment: Windows XP professional, Intel Celeron M, Xalan-J 2.7.1, JRE 1.4.2_05
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Mukul Gandhi
• Created: 09/Apr/08 13:10
• Updated: 09/Apr/08 15:25
• Resolved: 09/Apr/08 15:25

Description

I think, there is scope of improvement to the Xalan-J 2.7.1 serializer.

I tried this sample XSLT stylesheet with Xalan-J 2.7.1.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">

<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" />

<xsl:template match="/">
<x>
<y/>
</x>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

The output produced by Xalan is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><x>
<y/>
</x>

Please note that top most element tag, <x> is not indented properly.

I wish the output in this case should be:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<x>
<y/>
</x>

This problem seems to happen with any XML output.