RE: [xsl] XSL 2.0 - value-of - xml:space="preserve"

[Robert Koberg <rob@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 12:20 +0800, Michael Kay wrote:
> > The fact that this affects the 
> > XSL transformation output seems like a bug.
> 
> No, it's not a bug. The XML specification is quite clear that
> xml:space="preserve" is there to tell the application that whitespace text
> nodes are significant. The application in this case is XSLT, and it's taking
> you at your word.

Apologies for being dense and dragging this on, but I seem to have a
fundamental misunderstanding. Can you or someone else explain where the
whitespace is with regard to the xsl:value-of in something like:

<script xml:space="preserve"/>
  <xsl:variable name="my-var">
    <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="true()">1</xsl:when>
      <xsl:otherwise>2</xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
  </xsl:variable>
  var myvar=<xsl:value-of select="$my-var" separator=""/>;
</script>

To my eyes, there is no whitespace around the xsl:value-of and the
application is *not* taking me at my word.

thanks,
-Rob

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