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Explicit script end tag always converted to self-closing

Asked 2008-12-03T09:49:27.633
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I'm using xslt to transform xml to an aspx file. In the xslt, I have a script tag to include a jquery.js file. To get it to work with IE, the script tag must have an explicit closing tag. For some reason, this doesn't work with xslt below.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
    xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" exclude-result-prefixes="msxsl"
    xmlns:asp="remove">    
    <xsl:output method="html"/>
    <xsl:template match="/">
        <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
            <head>
                <title>TEST</title>
                <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.2.6.js"></script>

But if I change the script tag as shown below, it works. 

        <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.2.6.js">
            // <![CDATA[ // ]]>
        </script>

I thought that the <xsl:output method="html" /> would do the trick, but it doesn't seem to work?

/Jonas

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This is by design and the only workaround I know of is to use a custom XmlTextWriter :

public class HtmlTextWriter : XmlTextWriter
{
    private readonly string[] fullEndElements = 
        new string[] { "script", "title" };

    private string lastStartElement = null;


    public HtmlTextWriter(TextWriter textWriter)
        : base(textWriter)
    {
    }

    public HtmlTextWriter(string filename, Encoding encoding)
        : base(filename, encoding)
    {
    }

    public HtmlTextWriter(Stream w, Encoding encoding)
        : base(stream, encoding)
    {
    }

    public override void WriteStartElement(string prefix, string localName, string ns)
    {
        lastStartElement = localName;
        base.WriteStartElement(prefix, localName, ns);
    }

    public override void WriteEndElement()
    {
        if (Array.IndexOf(fullEndElements, lastStartElement) > -1)
        {
            base.WriteFullEndElement();
        }
        else
        {
            base.WriteEndElement();
        }
    }
}
answered 2010-04-04T00:38:59.517

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