Hi good morning!

I have developed XSLT for transforming xml into xml.

Ex :
input xml

<item>
<name>sample1<name>
<desc></desc>
</item>

output xml

<item>
<name>sample1<name>
<desc/>
</item>

In the transformed xml file I am getting self closing tag for the empty data element.

But for us our parser does not support self closing tag. I want the transformed file output with out self closing tag.

please help

So you have an XML parser that cannot parse valid XML? That sounds quite bad and I feel sorry for you. Any chance you can change XML parser?

/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/

>But for us our parser does not support self closing tag.

Then I would recommend you to ditch your parser and replace it with a real XML parser. There are plenty of good ones around.

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