RE: [xsl] How to trim leading and trailing spaces in xsl:attribute?

["Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can put xml:space="preserve" anywhere in a stylesheet (it affects all
text node descendants of that element), but as I say, I wouldn't recommend
it. I mentioned it as a possible explanation of the problems this poster was
having.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mukul Gandhi [mailto:mukul_gandhi@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 26 May 2005 10:05
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [xsl] How to trim leading and trailing spaces in 
> xsl:attribute?
> 
> Hi Mike,
>   Where we must specify xml:space="preserve" attribute
> (to preserve whitespace only text nodes in
> stylesheet)?
> 
> Would it be at this tag -
> <xsl:stylesheet xml:space="preserve" ...
> 
> Regards,
> Mukul
> 
> --- Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > You can write
> > 
> > <xsl:attribute name="x">
> >   <xsl:value-of select="abc"/>
> > </xsl:attribute>
> > 
> > Whitespace-only text nodes in a stylesheet are
> > ignored, unless you specify
> > xml:space="preserve" (which I wouldn't recommend).
> > 
> > Michael Kay
> > http://www.saxonica.com/ 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Karr, David [mailto:david.karr@xxxxxxxx] 
> > > Sent: 25 May 2005 18:41
> > > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: [xsl] How to trim leading and trailing
> > spaces in 
> > > xsl:attribute?
> > > 
> > > I have an "<xsl:attribute>" element in my
> > stylesheet, and its value is
> > > an "<xsl:value-of>" reference which then calls an
> > XPATH function.  The
> > > resulting single line is a little ugly.  I'd like
> > to format 
> > > the line so
> > > it's a little more readable.  Unfortunately, I
> > appear to be limited by
> > > the semantics of the "<xsl:attribute>" element. 
> > It does not trim
> > > leading and trailing spaces, and it encodes any
> > newlines found in the
> > > resulting value.
> > > 
> > > I'm using JDK 1.4.2, in case there are constraints
> > in the native TRAX
> > > implementation inherent in that.
> > 
> > 
> 
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