Hiya,

I'm just making this post due to a problem I encountered with one of my xslt files that was doing my head in. I finally found the problem and thought it may be useful to anyone else who's had the problem.

Basically I had the following (simplified) code in my xslt file:

<ul id="secondary-nav">   
<xsl:for-each select="$selectedNode/descendant::* [@isDoc and string(umbracoNaviHide) != '1']">
  <li>
   ...    
  </li>
</xsl:for-each>
  <li>
    <a href="#" target="_blank"></a>
    <a href="#" target="_blank"></a>
  </li>
</ul>

I couldn't work out why the rendered code had duplicate anchor tags. I figured my anchor tags were outside the loop so there should only be two instances of the anchors... however I was seeing duplicates.

It turns out that it was something to do with the anchor tags being empty. If i put either another element or even &nbsp; within the tags, everything appears to render correctly.

I realise that people may already be aware of this but I was struggling with it for quite some time today! I hope it helps someone out there..