Re: [xsl] Plain Text Handling in XSLT Output

["Georg Hohmann" <georg.hohmann@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for your quick response.
I'm currently reading Michael Kay's "XSLT2.0" and i didn't made it to
page 459 yet so i was not aware of the element xsl:text. :-) This is
exactly what i need, thanx!

GH.



2006/6/7, David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>:
> white space nodes in a stylesheet are stripped by default) (so you can
> indent your xsl code without affecting the result. various ways to
> change the default the easiest is to use <xsl:text>...</xsl:text>
> so
> <xsl:value-of select="Firstname"/> <xsl:value-of select="Lastname"/>
>
> could be
> <xsl:value-of select="Firstname"/>
> <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
> <xsl:value-of select="Lastname"/>
> or
> <xsl:value-of select="concat(Firstname,' ',Lastname)"/>
> or (in XSLT2)
>
> <xsl:value-of select="Firstname,Lastname"/>
>
>
>             ">
>             (<
>
> That node is not white space it;s a newline a bunch of spaces and a ( so
> is not stripped and appears as is in the result. Golden rule is always
> put all text in an xsl:text element if you are indenting code
>
>            ">
>     <xsl:text>(</xsl:text>
>    <xsl:value-of ...
>
> now the indentation spaces are in white space text nodes and so are
> ignored.
>
>
> David
>
>
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