Web Code help

I have snip of code: below and the output is dropping the trailing / <span style="display:none" id="metaMFGNAME"><xsl:value-of select="myfunctionlib:GetManufacturer(ItemCode)" /></span> <script> $(document).ready(function(){ var mfgNAME=$("#metaMFGNAME").text(); $('head').append('<meta class="XX" name="Manufacturer" data-type="string" content="'+mfgNAME+'" />'); }); </script> The Output is : <meta class="XX" name="Manufacturer" data-type="string" content="XX"> But needs to be: <meta class="XX" name="Manufacturer" data-type="string" content="XX"/>