Subject: Re: [xsl] Whitespace between character entities deleted From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 17:00:20 GMT |
This is a "feature" of msxml (which makes it really quite dificult sometimes to get acceptible XML browsing in IE) MSXML treats the entity references as nodes this is OK as far as the DOM goes, but it is supposd to hide this fact from the XPath model. Worse is the fact that it removes any white space text nodes as it builds the DOM. This is normally fairly inconvenient but it is particularly bad here as the space between the two character entities is not supposed to be a white space text node at all, according to the Xpath model, the accented letters and the space should all be part of the same text node. If you are calling the parser from script then you need to set the preseverWhiteSpace property to true _before_ parsing teh document. If however you are using the xml-stylesheet processing instruction, the document has already been parsed before you get control so there is nothing you can do, > However, the source text contains varieties of capital A with tilde plus > something else. That is what utf-8 encoded characters look like if you look at them in a window using latin-1 encoding. > I would be grateful for advice. It is a bug in IE. Please report it to them, if enough people complain, they may do something about it. But if you are in an environment where you have control over the parser something like the following (which I just cut out the msxml documentation) should do trick. xmldoc= new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument"); xmldoc.preserveWhiteSpace = true; xmldoc.load(url); David _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service. XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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