Subject: Re: [xsl] Empty object From: scott gabelhart <swgabel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 16:17:52 -0500 |
Mike,I have attached my xml input file and my stylesheet I am still getting
in my output <OBJECT> </OBJECT> instead of <OBJECT> </OBJECT>.
Scott,
I think what you are missing is the role of an entity as a placeholder, a name for, something to be textually substituted where the reference appears in content. Thus, your & nbsp; *is* appearing in your output as the character you have defined it to be: a non-breaking space, i.e. & #xa0; or & #160; (spaces added to prevent munging).
But, since you are no longer referring to an entity in your source document, the DOCTYPE declaration is no longer necessary. Or the content of OBJECT below was changed to facilitate debugging and you really are receiving & nbsp; in your sources, in which case it is required.
There is nothing magic about & nbsp; for your HTML output. The character designated 160 functions as you expect when rendered by the browser, holding space, etc. Indeed, & nbsp; is merely a predefined entity for HTML which is resolved to the character when processed by a client browser. You don't need to make this entity reference appear in your output for it to function properly.
Obvisouly my OBJECT template is not properly copying my element and
character contents over properly.
Your OBJECT template looks fine; however, it could be rewritten to be more idiomatically XSL and rather more succinct. Rather than a for-each and a test against a hard list of attributes to process, you can apply-templates and select any available attributes, or if only those particular attributes interest you, use select="ALIGN | STYLE | WIDTH | HEIGHT | NAME | TYPE | VALIGN | COLSPAN | ROWSPAN". Using a mode will prevent stepping on any default templates.
The template for processing attributes could look like this:
<xsl:template match="@*" mode="passthrough"> <xsl:attribute name="translate(name(.),ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ, abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz)"> <xsl:value-of select="."/> </xsl:attribute> </xsl:template
If you absolutely, positively, have to see the entity & nbsp; in your output, test the text() content of the OBJECT node for & #160; and output literally:
<xsl:text>&nbsp;</xsl:text>
This entity is already defined for XHTML, I believe.
hth,
Mike
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