Re: [xsl] Unable to get text() of node

Subject: Re: [xsl] Unable to get text() of node
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 07:46:54 -0500
At 2006-01-23 13:29 +0100, Geert Josten wrote:
It is obvious that something that isn't there cannot be preserved, but I don't observe the behaviour from the MSXSL parser that you and David are describing. If I run the following with Xalan or MSXSL I get the same result even when I replace strip-space by preserve-space

I do not ... I get different results when I replace your example with preserve-space (which happens to be the default). This has long been a bone of contention with the Microsoft engine since it is widely agreed that the Microsoft engine is non-conformant in this regard.


I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . Ken

T:\ftemp>type josten.xml
<foo>
  <bar>This is </bar>
  text.
</foo>

T:\ftemp>type josten.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>

<xsl:output method="xml" encoding="utf-8" indent="no"/>

<xsl:preserve-space elements="*" />

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <foo>
      <xsl:copy-of select="foo/text()" />
    </foo>
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

T:\ftemp>xslt-xalan josten.xml josten.xsl con
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<foo>

  text.
</foo>

T:\ftemp>xslt-msxsl josten.xml josten.xsl con
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><foo>
  text.
</foo>
T:\ftemp>


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