Hi Lars Johnsen, declare the output to be HTML using the [serialization options], for example add these lines to the XQuery prolog: declare option output:method "html"; declare option output:html-version "5.0"; (: not required, will add XML declaration :) Doing so, BaseX will not shorten empty tags any more. Kind regards, Jens Erat [serialization options]: http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Serialization -- Jens Erat [phone]: tel:+49-151-56961126 [mail]: mailto:email@jenserat.de [jabber]: xmpp:jabber@jenserat.de [web]: http://www.jenserat.de PGP: 350E D9B6 9ADC 2DED F5F2 8549 CBC2 613C D745 722B Am 24.09.2013 um 17:28 schrieb Lars Johnsen <yoonsen@gmail.com>:

Hello BaseX developers!

When using BaseX scripting to generate HTML, I got a problem with the representation of empty nodes. For example, my code has something like this in it

<div> { ... some code...} </div>

if ...some code... returns nothing, the div is empty as is labelled <div/>. This causes trouble in HTML, since <div/> is treated as if it was the start tag <div>, and will therefore nest over following divs. Is there a way for BaseX to output <div></div> instead?

There is an ad hoc solution which checks if ...some code... is empty and inserts a blank in those cases, preventing the div from collapsing into one tag, but was hoping for a more general solution.

All the best,

Lars G Johnsen National Library of Norway _______________________________________________ BaseX-Talk mailing list BaseX-Talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk