On Feb 8, 11:23 pm, Cecil Westerhof <d...@dummy.nl> wrote:
> This is a piece of code from a xslt-file:
>
>   <xsl:template match="SMS">
>     <xsl:for-each select='.'>

As a side note, this is one of the silliest things I've
ever seen and a textbook case of magical thinking in
coding. It's not that I've never invoked foo to do bar
without understanding either foo or bar--I did, but after
being painfully bitten on my backside by that a few times
I just said no.

>       <tr>
>         <td class = "inputDescription"><xsl:value-of
> select='.' />:</td>
>         <td><textarea class = "content" id = "{@id}"
> rows="5" cols="50">#</textarea></td>
>       </tr>
>     </xsl:for-each>
>   </xsl:template>
>
> When I remove the '#' to get an empty textare, the endtag
> is collapsed into the begintag and all the HTML code
> after the textarea is displayed into the textare. How can
> I get an empty textarea?

You do get an empty textarea element, it is just being
serialized as XML. There are a few possible causes for
this:

 - you might've forgotten to set <xsl:output method="html"
   ... /> in your transformation. If this is the case, the
   fix should be obvious.
 - your XSLT processor doesn't grok <xsl:output method=
   "html" ... /> and blissfully serializes the resulting
   tree as XML anyway. If this is the case, change your
   XSLT processor.
 - you're attempting to output XHTML1.0, but then serve it
   as text/html anyway. Basically, XSLT processors couldn't
   care less for workarounds described in W3C
   recommendation to ensure backwards compatibility, and
   without employing those workarounds you cannot serve
   XHTML as text/html (and you shouldn't anyway if you care
   for your sanity and general well-being one bit). If this
   is the case, just output HTML4.01 instead (there might
   be other solutions, but I won't go into that).

--
roy axenov