When I run my stylesheets via Saxon, <div></div> gets turns into <div/>. This throws off the rendering in IE and Firefox. MSXSL preserves the <div></div>.

Is there a way to prevent Saxon from merging <div></div> into <div/>?

If you need HTML then set method attribute on the xsl:output element to html, although this shouldn't be necessary if the document element is html in the empty namespace. If you actually want XHTML then it shouldn't matter about the closed elements and you should use xml as the xsl:output method in XSLT 1.0 or xhtml in version 2.0.

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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

As Joe says: (a) make sure you are using the method="html" output method, and (b) make sure your div elements are not in a namespace (such as the XHTML namespace).

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

Ah, thanks! Switching to method="html" fixed the empty divs. That made sense.

However, I'm now getting some blank lines in the output when I use indent="yes" (and when I use indent="no" the tags tend to be crammed onto one line). That's not a big deal, as long as I can get my "tidy" template working. Of course, my "tidy" template requires me to pass the generated html as a node set, which brings me back to the node-set issue, but that's discussed in another topic...

Anyway, thanks again!