Question

I am using a rather old verision of exist at work. I’d love to update it, but unfortunately were are too small and I am to junior to get this done anytime in the next few months.

Anyway, I rewriting some document table of contents. I would like to output an empty span tag that has an icon, unforunately that is not working correctly.

Here is a brief snippet using Xquery 1.0

else if ( $section/name()= 'body') then
   <h3><span class="ui-icon ui-icon-circle-triangle-e"></span>
    Body
    </h3>

This transforms to the following

HTML

<h3>
    <span class="ui-icon ui-icon-circle-triangle-e"/>
    Body
</h3>

which is again misintrerpted by the browsers(chromium/firefox) I am testing in to the following:

<h3>
   <span class="ui-icon ui-icon-circle-triangle-e">
     Body
    </span>
</h3>

The Text should not be wrapped in the span tag, it should precede it as an icon.

Answer 1

I don’t know exist but I’d try something like

<h3>
  <span class="ui-icon ui-icon-circle-triangle-e">{" "}</span>
  Body
</h3>

or similar. You might also look for some way to control the serialization globally.