I've experienced these empty divs before as well. all you need to do is 
somehting like this:



<div id="something">
<xsl:comment>keep this div not empty</xsl:comment>
</div>

and that should solve your problem of a self-closing element.

this way, you do not need to change your <xsl:output> from xml to html. 
you can keep it:



<xsl:output method="xml">



to retain xhtml formatting.



dale
  
-----Original Message-----

From: A D [mailto:hopethisisstillthere@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 02 June 2007 13:06

To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Subject: [xsl] XSL transformation removing closing tag for empty div



Hi All,



I have a xsl which has an empty div:



<div class="somehting"></div>



I fill this div on the client side using javascript. Now, I 
make an Ajax call and on the server side, I do transformation 
in such a way that I get XML back as response to the Ajax 
call. For this, I set the servlet response content type to be 
text/xml. In doing so, the output of the transformation does 
not contain the closing tag  i.e it is changed to <div 
class="something"/> . I would want it to keep the closing 
tag. How can I achieve this?



Thanks in advance,
A D