Preserve XHTML formatting in the parser

README.md

@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ var html = cheerio.load(input)
 // Now unleash the fury
 var convertedHtml = i.releaseTheKraken(html);
 
-// The return value is a Cheerio object. Get the string value with .html()
-convertedHtml.html();
+// The return value is a Cheerio object. Get the string value with .xml()
+// Note that we use .xml() and not .html(), because HTML emails should be written as XHTML
+convertedHtml.xml();
 ```

index.js

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ module.exports = function(opts, cb) {
   function transform() {
     return through.obj(function(file, enc, callback) {
       var html = cheerio.load(file.contents.toString());
-      var convertedHtml = inky.releaseTheKraken(html).html();
+      var convertedHtml = inky.releaseTheKraken(html).xml();
 
       file.contents = new Buffer(convertedHtml);
 

lib/componentFactory.js

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ var $ = require('cheerio');
  * @returns {string} HTML converted from a custom element to table syntax.
  */
 module.exports = function(element) {
-  var inner = element.html();
+  var inner = element.xml();
 
   switch (element[0].name) {
     // <column>

test/inky.js

@@ -55,6 +55,13 @@ describe('Inky', () => {
 
     compare(input, expected);
   });
+
+  it.only('preserves self-closing tags', () => {
+    var input = '<br/>';
+    var expected = '<br/>';
+
+    compare(input, expected);
+  });
 });
 
 describe('Inky wrappers', () => {

test/lib/compare.js

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ var htmlEqual = require('assert-html-equal');
 module.exports = function compare(input, expected) {
   var inky = new Inky();
   var $ = cheerio.load(input);
-  var output = inky.releaseTheKraken($).html();
+  var output = inky.releaseTheKraken($).xml();
 
   htmlEqual(output, expected);
 }