RE: Saxon html includes unwanted white space in anchor tag

[Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@xxxxxxx>]

Mike ALsup wrote some while ago:

> I'm having trouble when trying to use an html image tag 
> inside an anchor tag using the following stylesheet:
> 
>     <a href="#"><img border="0" src="image.jpg"/></a>
> 
> The saxon v5.1 processor generates the following HTML:
> 
>         <a href="#">
>             <img src="image.jpg" border="0">
>         </a>

The XSLT spec says, with respect to indenting in HTML, "the method may add
or remove whitespace as it outputs the result tree, so long as it does not
change how a user agent would render the output".

So SAXON's behaviour here is clearly wrong. I'm now wondering what algorithm
would meet the requirement and still satisfy the implicit expectation of
"indenting". Does anyone have any suggestions? Do I have to consider each
element type individually?

Otherwise, I'm tempted to do the simplest thing that conforms to the letter
of the spec and make indent="yes" a null operation.

Meanwhile of course the undesirable effects can be eliminated by setting
indent="no".

Mike Kay


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