RE: Whitespace problem in IE5

[Dave Dieno <daved@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, the HTML is placed in a <PRE> section... sorry, I should have included
the XSL template:

<xsl:template match="sourceline">
 <PRE STYLE="font-family:monospace">
      <xsl:value-of />
  </PRE>
</xsl:template>

I've also considered (but not tried) using the DTD approach I.E. <!ATTLIST
sourceline xml:space="preserve"> however I'm trying not to use a DTD for
this project :) 
Dave

	Steve Dahl wrote:

> When you generate the HTML, do you put these text lines inside a <PRE>
> section?
> 
> XML's specifications control how XML is treated, but not how HTML is
> treated--HTML strips preceding and following whitespace unless the text is
> in
> a <PRE>, and does not pay attention to xml:space.
> 
> 
> Dave Dieno wrote:
> 
> > I'm transforming XML to HTML via XSL using IE5.
> >
> > I've got an XML element for which I would like to preserve the
> whitespace
> > upon output to HTML.
> >
> > For example, I'd like the following XML fragment:
> >
> > <codelisting>
> > <sourceline>
> >     if ( x  ==    "testcase") {
> > </sourceline>
> > <sourceline>
> >         o.method(x);
> > </sourceline>
> > <sourceline>
> >     }
> > </sourceline>
> > </codelisting>
> >
> > Viewed in the browser as:
> >
> >     if ( x  ==    "testcase") {
> >         o.method(x);
> >     }
> >
> > My output font is monospaced, and I've tried using both the stylesheet
> > attribute:
> >
> > <xsl:stylesheet default-space="preserve"> and the element attribute:
> >
> > <sourceline xml:space="preserve">.
> >
> > What I get is:
> >
> > if ( x  ==    "testcase") {
> > o.method(x);
> > }
> >
> > While the whitespace within a line is preserved, all of the leading
> > whitespace characters (spaces and tabs) are removed :(
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dave Dieno
> > Aeroinfo Systems Inc.
> > http://www.aeroinfo.com
> >
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> 
> --
> - Steve Dahl
> sdahl@xxxxxxxxxxx
> 


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