Subject: (dsssl) "Normalizing" spaces From: MARK.WROTH@xxxxxxxxxxx (Wroth, Mark) Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 08:49:06 -0700 |
I have observed that when processed with Norman Walsh's Modular DSSSL Style Sheets, sequences of whitespace characters in SGML DocBook are replaced by a single space. In other words, an element like <para>This is paragraph content. Note the large quantities of whitespace (spaces, tabs, and newlines) found in the paragraph.</para> will show up in the output as This is paragraph content. Note the large quantities of whitespace (spaces, tabs, and newlines) found in the paragraph. On the other hand, when I take a similar element from another DTD and process it with a homegrown style sheet, the spaces are faithfully reproduced in the output (especially the RTF output). Since I use emacs/PSGML to process the documents, the default behavior of the editor is to insert whitespace to show structure (by indentation) -- which means the document tends to have a lot of "extraneous" whitespace unless I explicitly remove it. I would greatly prefer to mimic the DocBook/Modular Style Sheet behavior. Can anyone tell me how this is accomplished? I can't find code in the style sheet that I recognize as accomplishing it, nor has poking around in the DSSSL spec gotten me anywhere. Thanks Mark DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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