HTML and XHTML XSL stylesheets

["Charlie Hubbard" <charlie.hubbard@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I'm using the HTML XSL stylesheets to transform a docbook.  However,
after I run the stylesheets I get strange results.  I'm getting <br>
instead of <br/> or <img> instead of <img/>.  I checked the
stylesheets shipped with docbook, and they all have <br/> and <img/>
tags closed like in XML.  I've tried changing the output option to
xml, but it still exports them without the closing tag or short hand
form closing.

I moved into using the HTML after using the XHTML stylesheets, but
unfortunately, I ran into a bigger problem with XHTML and whitespace
formating in IE and firefox.  I don't think the XHTML stylesheets are
usable because of this problem.  It could be bugs in the browsers, but
bugs or no bugs it still won't format correctly.

I'm trying to get something that is XHTML so that it can be parsed
more easily, but I have to create HTML so that the browsers will
format and display the results properly.

Charlie