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Re: white space removal
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- Subject: Re: [xsl] white space removal
- From: David Carlisle <davidc at nag dot co dot uk>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 11:15:03 +0100
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white space nodes in the stylesheet are not copied to the output
by default (unless they are in xsl:text), so just make sure all the
characters you want to output are not in the same text nodes as
the white space used for indenting the stylesheet.
<xsl:template match="x">
hello
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
the first text node is newline, 2 spaces, hello, newline, 2 spaces.
and will be copied as such to the output, but
<xsl:template match="x">
<xsl:text>hello</xsl:text>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
Now the newlines are in text nodes that just consist of white space, so
are stripped.
There are variations such as
<xsl:template match="x">
<xsl:text/>hello<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
David
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