Re: [xsl] RE: Whitespace after <span> in <a>

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

> The
> generated html document always contains a carriage return and a number
> of spaces after the note number in running text.

There are only three possible sources of space in the output
1) copied from the input
2) copied from the stylesheet
3) added by xsl:output indent="yes"

The most common cause of unwanted space is type 2 from things like
<xsl:template match="kjg">
   something
    <xsl:apply-templates/>

which adds a newline and three spaces before something.

However:

      <span class="inlineNoteNumber">&#160;[<xsl:number level="any"
  />]</span></a>

That should not produce any space.
So since you are producing html output indenting is on by default.
The system can only add space where it would _not_ change the rendering
in a browser, but that's difficult to get right (and the browsers don't
follow the html spec either usually) so it may be a bug somewhere
add <xsl:output indent="no"/> and see if that stops it (if so report it
to your xslt system maintainers as a bug).

> (The "Â" is another anomaly that I'd like to resolve; it should be
> passed through as &#160; or 

that's not an anomaly that's a faq. You are outputting in utf-8 and then
looking at the file in a latin-1 encoded editor. This means that you see
essentially random characters. ASCII letters happen to have the same
encoding in utf8 and latin1 so look the same, and a nbsp happens to 
use two bytes in utf8 which if viewed as latin1 come out as an acented a
followed by a nbsp. Either fix your viewer to understand utf8 or output
your file as latin1 by adding encoding="iso-8859-1" to xsl:output/

David

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