Re: [xsl] Transformer adds unwanted newlines

[Robert Koberg <rob@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

In your XSL, is you xsl:output set to indent="yes" ? If so, set it to  
no.

-Rob


On Oct 3, 2008, at 7:17 AM, John English wrote:

> I have a problem with a transformer which adds unwanted newlines. I am
> using the Xalan that comes with JDK 1.4.2 (this is an old J2EE project
> which breaks if I try to use a newer JDK) and I have a rule to copy  
> HTML
> fragments embedded in my XML:
>
>  <xsl:template match='div|span'>
>    <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
>  </xsl:template>
>
> I put in the following enclosed in <div> ... </div>:
>
>  <table cellpadding='10'><tr><td>...
>
> but this is what I get out:
>
>  <table cellpadding="10">
>  <tr>
>  <td>
>  ...
>
> This doesn't matter, except in the following case:
>
>  <pre>  public class Demo {<br />    <b>public static void</b> main...
>
> which comes out as:
>
>  <pre>  public class Demo {<br>
>  <b>public static void</b> main...
>
> That is, Xaalan is inserting newlines between tags which are separated
> only by whitespace. In the case of the <pre> block above, the spaces
> after <br /> are output, followed by a newline, which means that the
> indentation is completely wrong.
>
> I have tried adding indent="no" to my <xsl:output> tag but this has no
> effect.
>
> Anyone got any ideas what I can do about this?
>
> TIA,
>
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