Re: [xsl] struck with space handling

[Antonio Fiol <fiol at w3ping dot com>]

As someone (David C?) said,

ONLY white space nodes are removed from the stylesheet. If a node 
contains something apart from whitespace, it is not removed (and the 
whitespace it contains is not removed either).

So if you have

[...]<xsl:for-each select="centers/center">
         "<xsl:value-of [...]

That really means "output a text node containing a newline character 
followed by some spaces and then a " sign.


Antonio



subbu@boltblue.com wrote:

> Hi,
> I have yet another problem sorting out the whitespace issue(i do not know if i 
> can really call it as a whitespace issue )
> The problem is as follows...
> i want the ids to appear one below the other between the quots like.
>
> "3100004"
> "3100007"
> "80000"
> "3100012"
> "3000900"
> "80001"
> So 
> I write the XSL code as below
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet SYSTEM "D:\xsl-exp\characterEntities\entityref.dtd">
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
> 	<xsl:output method="text" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
> 	<xsl:template match="/">
> <!--line 1 -->	<xsl:for-each select="centers/center"> "<xsl:value-of select=" 
> @id"/>"
> 		<xsl:text>&#xa;</xsl:text>
> 			</xsl:for-each>
> 	</xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> In the above code , where line 1 is,
> 1.If i write the 
> "<xsl:value-of select=" @id"/>"
> below the for loop ( in the next line of the for-each)
> i get the results as ( note the spaces before the id and the extra newline 
> after each ID
> <----Spaces----
>
> 		"3100004"
>                             
> 		"3100007"
>
> 		"80000"
>
> 		"3100012"
>
> 		"3000900"
>
> 		"80001"
> 2. If i write "<xsl:value-of select=" @id"/>" in the same line as the for-each 
> and <xsl:text>&#xa;</xsl:text> in the next line,
> then i get result as( note that the spaces before id is sorted but there is an 
> extra newline )
>
> "3100004"
> 		
> "3100007"
> 		
> "80000"
> 		
> "3100012"
> 		
> "3000900"
> 		
> "80001"
>
> 3. If however i write the "<xsl:value-of select=" @id"/>"  and 
> <xsl:text>&#xa;</xsl:text> in the same line as xsl:for-each , i get the result 
> what i wanted.. eg., if xsl code is 
> <xsl:for-each select="schedule/timeslot">"<xsl:value-of 
> select="@id"/>"<xsl:text>&#xa;</xsl:text> ( in the same line)
> Then the result is as desired.. like below( note that there are no spaces and 
> no extra newlines)
>
> "3100004"
> "3100007"
> "80000"
> "3100012"
> "3000900"
> "80001"
>
> I am not really sure how the XSLT processor outputs the space.I am really 
> concerned because output is depending upon the XSL structure..if i use the tidy 
> option in xselerator, then it arrainges the loops etc in a proper indented way, 
> which will then not get what i want. I am concerned as to how the structure of 
> the XSL coding can impact the output?? is there any way to get around this?
> Thanks Very Much
> Subbu
>
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