empty tags
Tuesday, 24 September 2013 · 2 messages
LJ
Lars Johnsen24 Sep 2013 17:28 #
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
JE
Jens Erat24 Sep 2013 17:34 #
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
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Quoted text · Lars Johnsen · 20 lines
Am 24.09.2013 um 17:28 schrieb Lars Johnsen <yoonsen at 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 at mailman.uni-konstanz.de > https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk
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