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Asked: 2026-05-23T16:01:50+00:00

I’m transforming an XML document with mimimized br tags like this: <br/> I’m using

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I’m transforming an XML document with mimimized br tags like this:

<br/>

I’m using Saxon 9, and outputting as XHTML

<xsl:output method="xhtml" indent="yes" use-character-maps="html-chars"/>

I was under the impression from the docs that when using XSLT the serializer must use minimised tag endings (if the tag body is empty, which it is), however I always get this in my output:

<br></br>

Any clues as to why this should be the case, and how I can force it to output in minimized form:

<br/>
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  1. Editorial Team

    The output method xhtml will output any empty XHTML elements in the minimized way, meaning any elements like br that are in the XHTML namespace http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml. So without seeing more details I would guess that you have br result elements that are in no namespace or a different namespace. In that case the output method does not require any minimized syntax.

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