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Re: White space control when formatting for ascii text
- To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
- Subject: Re: White space control when formatting for ascii text
- From: David Carlisle <davidc at nag dot co dot uk>
- Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 21:35:54 +0100
- References: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10010171509260.27423-100000@amenti.rutgers.edu>
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> It seems to be very difficult to control the white space in the style
> sheet.
If, as you have done, you put all character data inside xsl:text
elements then controlling white space in the stylesheet is simple.
None of it gets through to the output except that inside xsl:text.
Your problem is white space from the source, you have strip-space set
but that only removes text nodes that are all white, it doesn't remove
the newline and spaces or tab after the h here:
<desc>Date of birth
^
</desc>
^^^^^^
you want to apply liberal doses of normalize-space
David
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