In testing for the upcoming release of the 4Suite tools, we have
came across a rather bad bug in the XSLT TextWriter code.

Basically it was printing an end tag after a single < /> element tag.

What follows is the diff of the file TextWriter.py

--- removed line
+++ changed line

in function endElement()
@@ -139,9 +142,11 @@
         trace("End Element %s" % name)
         if self.__currElement:
-            self.__completeLastElement(1)
+            elementIsEmpty = self.__completeLastElement(1)
+        else:
+            elementIsEmpty = 0
         if self.__outputParams.method != 'html' or (string.upper(name)
not in HTML_FORBIDDEN_END):
-            text = '</' + name + '>'
+            text = (not elementIsEmpty) and ('</' + name + '>') or ''
             if self.__outputParams.indent == 'yes':
                 self.__indent = self.__indent[:-2]
             if (self.__outputParams.method != 'html') or 
and in function __completeLastElement()

@@ -181,6 +186,7 @@
                 else:
                     self.__result = self.__result + '>'
                     self.__nextNewLine = 0
+                    elementIsEmpty = 0
             else:
                 self.__result = self.__result + '>'
                 self.__nextNewLine = 1
@@ -188,5 +194,5 @@
             if self.__outputParams.indent == 'yes':
                 self.__indent = self.__indent + '  '
             self.__currElement = None
-        return self.__currElement
+        return
elementIsEmpty                                                                                                                                       


Sorry for any problems that this has caused.

-- 
Jeremy Kloth                             Consultant
jeremy.kloth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx             (303)583-9900 x 102
Fourthought, Inc.                        http://www.fourthought.com
Software-engineering, knowledge-management, XML, CORBA, Linux, Python


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