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SAM
SAM

Reputation: 47

XSLT stylesheet empty paired tags required instead of self-closing tags for null values

I have an input which can sometimes have value and sometimes not. Like value1=ABC or value1=""

During my xsl transformation I have my code with the following line

<element name="test"><xsl:value-of select="$value1"/><element>

The output of the above code when value is present is

<element name="test">ABC</element>

When the value is not present, the output is

<element name="test"/>

Now, I want it to look like 

<element name="test"></element>

instead of 

<element name="test"/>

Is it possible to get the required output? If yes, then how to do it?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1379

Answers (1)

Daniel Haley
Daniel Haley

Reputation: 52858

Try adding <xsl:output method="html"/>.

Example...

XSLT 1.0

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:output method="html"/>
    <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

    <xsl:template match="/">
        <xsl:variable name="test1"/>
        <xsl:variable name="test2" select="'value'"/>
        <element name="test1"><xsl:value-of select="$test1"/></element>
        <element name="test2"><xsl:value-of select="$test2"/></element>
    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

produces (when applied to any XML instance):

<element name="test1"></element>
<element name="test2">value</element>

Upvotes: 1

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