Re: [xsl] Preserving whitespace between elements

[Matthew Fonda <mfonda@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Haarman, Michael wrote:

> > I am using the XSL extension in PHP, which uses libxslt 
> > (http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/). I have tried using 
> > xslt:preserve-space but 
> > to no avail. I cannot seem to figure out what is causing this.
> >
> >    
>
> xsl:preserve-space will only alter the set of element names specified to
> xsl:strip-space.
>
> I'm not familiar how PHP handles this, but a glance at this page:
>
> http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.xslt.php
>
> which includes a description of this directive:
>
> XSLT_SABOPT_DISABLE_STRIPPING (integer)
> Suppress the whitespace stripping (on data files only). 
>
> suggests you are using sablotron and not libxslt, per this note:
>
> http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.xslt.php#59398
>
>
> Check your version and your configuration.
>
>
> HTH,
>
> Mike
>
>
> -----------------------------------
> Mike Haarman,
> XSL Developer,
> Internet Broadcasting Systems, Inc.
>
>  
Mike,

PHP version 4 used sablo, it is now using libxslt. See 
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.xsl.php

I've tested my stylesheet on several other processors, and it appears to 
work as expected, it is only failing from PHP. Thanks for the help.

-- Matthew