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Shannon 148 posts 171 karma points

Feb 11, 2011 @ 00:34
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Using xsl:if doesn't include closing tag
Trying to use the following code to insert a google ad inside of a blog roll
```
<xsl:if test="position() = 3"><object data="/frontpage_blogroll_center_top_728x90" width="735" height="95"  ></object></xsl:if> 
```
For some reason the closing tag </object> doesn't get rendered in the HTML and causes error. Is there anyway to resolve this?
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Dirk De Grave 4541 posts 6021 karma points MVP 3x admin c-trib

Feb 11, 2011 @ 09:27
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Standard behaviour of xslt, empty tags get 'stripped', need to wrap it inside a CDATA section...
```
<xsl:it test="position() = 3">
<xsl:text><![CDATA[<object data="/frontpage_blogroll_center_top_728x90" width="735" height="95"  ></object>]]></xsl:text>
</xsl:if>
```
Hope this helps.

Regards,

/Dirk
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Jan Skovgaard 11280 posts 23678 karma points MVP 11x admin c-trib

Feb 11, 2011 @ 09:36

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Hi Shannon

I think what Dirk has posted is a good solution to your problem.

However I think you could also solve it by changing the output method from XML to HTML

In this line i the XSLT it says pr. default

<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

You can change it to

<xsl:output method="html" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

/Jan

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Chriztian Steinmeier 2800 posts 8790 karma points MVP 8x admin c-trib

Feb 11, 2011 @ 09:38
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Hi Shannon,

Current best fix for that would actually be to just render a comment inside the <object> element:
```
<xsl:if test="position() = 3">
    <object data="/frontpage_blogroll_center_top_728x90" width="735" height="95"><xsl:comment /></object>
</xsl:if>
```
/Chriztian
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Jan Skovgaard 11280 posts 23678 karma points MVP 11x admin c-trib

Feb 11, 2011 @ 09:41

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Nice on Chriztian! It's so obvious I'm feeling ashamed I did not think of that. But hey...lesson learned...once again ;-)

/Jan

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Chriztian Steinmeier 2800 posts 8790 karma points MVP 8x admin c-trib

Feb 11, 2011 @ 09:47

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@Jan: Your solution is actually really good and I would recommend it, but unfortunately it adds the risk of breaking lots of other stuff for people (think <br>, <link> and <hr> tags etc.) which is a pain for people looking for a fix for the *current* problem :-)

/Chriztian

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