Self-branded content transforms <br/> to <br></br> and shows it with an extra blank line.

Question

When you show self-branded content in the Help Viewer 1.1, any <br/> tags are transformed by the branding package into <br></br> so you end up with an extra blank line in the displayed content.

I tracked down the reason for this in Dev10.mshc.

In Identity.xslt the pass-through transform looks like this:

<xsl:if test="not(*) and not(text()) and not(self::xhtml:br) and not(self::xhtml:hr)"> 
    <xsl:value-of select="' '" /> 
</xsl:if > 

and that works fine:

However, in body.xslt (match="*|/" mode="self-branding") there is a second passthrough transform like this:

<xsl:if test="not(*) and not(text())">
  <xsl:value-of select="' '"/>
</xsl:if>

and that just messes up self-branded content.

Does anybody know a work-around for this????

Answer 1

Hello Don - unfortunately, I'm unaware of a workaround for this in VS 2010/Help Viewer 1.x.

In VS 11/Help Viewer 2.0, we are explicitly leaving any code markup alone except for link references when SelfBranded=true. We just verified this scenario.

Sincerely,

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Paul O'Rear, Microsoft Corporation http://blogs.msdn.com/TheHelpGuy