When using BaseX scripting to generate HTML, I got a problem with the representation of empty nodes. For example, my code has something like this in it

<div> { ... some code...} </div>

if ...some code... returns nothing, the div is empty as is labelled <div/>. This causes trouble in HTML, since  <div/> is treated as if it was the  start tag <div>, and will therefore nest over following divs. Is there a way for BaseX to output <div></div> instead? 

There is an ad hoc solution which checks if ...some code... is empty and inserts a blank in those cases, preventing the div from collapsing into one tag, but  was hoping for a more general solution.

All the best,

Lars G Johnsen

National Library of Norway