Re: [xsl] strip-spaces

Subject: Re: [xsl] strip-spaces
From: Steven Ericsson-Zenith <steven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 11:10:29 -0800
Forget that nonsense about tabs. I removed the tabs by hand and it does not make a difference. I sat up too late trying to fix this and I'm a little frustrated. It is obviously some IE quirk that I don't understand. I'm really unhappy wasting my time on such things and I'm sorry to waste yours.

Thanks,
Steven

On Feb 4, 2008, at 11:03 AM, Steven Ericsson-Zenith wrote:

Thanks for the prompt response Colin.

It is, in fact, the document content that is not being stripped, as I look at this more closely. So, your observation does not suggest the problem (but it was a worthy observation none-the-less).

It is the text generated by the apply-templates calls that is not striped. They leave tabs behind which cause no problem in decent browsers like Safari and Firefox - but breaks the layout in IE.

I'm using Saxon 9.

With respect,
Steven



On Feb 4, 2008, at 10:44 AM, Colin Adams wrote:

xsl:strip-space targets source documents, not the stylesheet.

On 04/02/2008, Steven Ericsson-Zenith <steven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dear List,

I have

<xsl:output
     indent="no"
     method="xhtml"
     doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
     doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd
" />
<xsl:strip-space
     elements="*" />

in a style sheet, and the following template:

 <xsl:template
     match="foobar">
     <xsl:element
         name="span">
         <xsl:attribute
             name="class">c</xsl:attribute>
         <xsl:element
             name="div">
             <xsl:attribute
                 name="class">d</xsl:attribute>
             <xsl:attribute
                 name="style">display:none</xsl:attribute>
             <xsl:element
                 name="p">
                 <xsl:attribute
                     name="style">text-transform:capitalize;text-
align:left;</xsl:attribute>
                 <xsl:element
                     name="em">
                     <xsl:apply-templates
                         select="t" />
                 </xsl:element>
             </xsl:element>
             <xsl:element
                 name="p">
                 <xsl:apply-templates
                     select="d" />
             </xsl:element>
         </xsl:element>
         <xsl:apply-templates
             select="t" />
     </xsl:element>
 </xsl:template>

For some reason this template alone, of all the many templates I have
in this style sheet, is not stripped - and that failure to strip
produces a faulty layout in IE (spit).


I've tried all permutations but I don't understand why it is not
stripped. Can someone enlighten me?

Sincerely,
Steven


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