I don't see that in Mozilla nor in Konqueror so I assume it's an IE issue. In any case, <br/> and <br></br> are equivalent. Maybe somebody using IE can confirm that so we can close this issue.

It's an IE issue only, I don't know how difficult can be to generate collapsed tags when content it's empty

the "two line break" visualization it's surely an IE issue but note that <br/> and <br></br> are not equivalent, br must be collapsed in html.

I agree we should bew acommodating IE quirks where possible, but I don't want to invest effort in grappling with jsl at this point. Let's try and get to an m2-technology-based maven1 xdoc plugin as soon as possible...

The expanding of empty elements is a dom4j issue, I have opened a bug report there. I don't think there is much to do here...

Isn't it fixed in the current plugin with the last upgrade of dom4J ? I'll check this...

I checked it and it's still not fixed.

The bug I opened in dom4j is fixed in the version we are shipping with m11b3, but the feature has to be switched on explicitly, and it's an issue of jelly using dom4j, and I forgot to check that when I custom-built our own jelly, so it's not fixed yet...

Can we plan to upgrade our custom Jelly to fix this in the RC1 ?

Another custom jelly build? If that carries on like that we might as well take over jelly maintenance... I don't think this issue is important enough for that...

One more, one less
But it's a good idea we can propose that you join the jakarta-commons team !!