Tim Larson recently brought up the issue of the serialized representation of empty tags when using the XMLSerializer for serving XHTML [1]. This was sparked from a thread I had started on the users list about this issue. I've done some considerable hair pulling over the past day, and I think I finally nailed it down.
I thought I fixed it into the XHTML serializers I put in the scratchpad with the old Garbage implmentation, but looking at the code right now, err, no I didn't...
I hear you, the serializers for plain XHTML are quite nasty... I noticed some odd behavior also on the <script> and <style> tags (not all browsers like when they look like <tag />).
Well, anyhow, I fixed it now, if you want to try it out, check if this serializer works for you:
http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/cocoon-2.1/src/blocks/scratchpad/ garbage/source/java/org/apache/garbage/serializer/XHTMLSerializer.java? rev=1.3&view=auto
It's in the scratchpad.
Pier
