RE: [xsl] White space - preserving white space within element data using MSXML3

[Kay Michael <Michael dot Kay at icl dot com>]

> With MSXML3, I don't seem to get the results I am expecting.  
> I don't get any
> results at all.  I'm expecting that the white space will be 
> preserved in the
> rendered document.  Instead the white-space is removed 
> (default behavior).  I
> have a Microsoft sample CD that was distributed at XML 2000 
> that documents
> <xsl:preserve-space> and <xsl:strip-space> with a limited a 
> example.  Has anyone
> successfully used <xsl:preserve-space> with MSXML3?

The normal way of supplying input to an MSXML3 transformation is as a DOM,
and the default way of constructing a DOM with MSXML3 causes whitespace to
be removed long before the XSLT transformation gets to see it. There's an
option to kep white space whil;e building the DOM.

Mike Kay 

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