html - XSLT wont allow me to use self-closing img and br tags

Question

I have some XSLT that gets rendered in the Sitecore 6 CMS, but I don't think that this issue is specific to the product.

If I have a self-closing img or br tag, like so:

<br />
<img src="your.example.com" />

The resulting output would be:

<br>
<img src="your.example.com">

The output method of the XSLT file is HTML. Is it supposed to be XML? I'm guessing that self-closing tags are not valid HTML, but is setting it to XML going to cause problems in my output?

Answer 1

That is just fine. You choose HTML, and <br> tags are allowed in HTML. Choose XML and then you will have what you want.

And yes, you should use XML method if you want self-closing tags. I'm guessing you want XHTML output, and XHTML is a XML document.