Re: [xsl] Transformer adds unwanted newlines

[Robert Koberg <rob@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 3, 2008, at 8:22 AM, John English wrote:

> David Carlisle wrote:
> > > Anyone got any ideas what I can do about this?
> > but ignoring indent=no sounds less likely, are you sure you don't  
> > have
> > another xsl:output somewhere, or that you are not outputing an XMl  
> > tree
> > that is then being serialised by some other JDK methord rather than
> > being serialised by XSLT?
>
> No other xsl:output, and all I do in the transform is this:
>
>  SAXParserFactory spf = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
>  spf.setNamespaceAware(true);
>  SAXParser parser = spf.newSAXParser();
>  reader = parser.getXMLReader();
>  stf = (SAXTransformerFactory) TransformerFactory.newInstance();
>  String s = serializeTree();
>  System.out.println("DEBUG: " + s);     // <------- DEBUG

But this really has nothing to do with the transformation (other than  
being the source :) ).

>  InputSource input = new InputSource(new StringReader(s));
>  filter = stf.newXMLFilter(new StreamSource(stylesheet));
>  filter.setParent(reader);
>  StreamResult result = new StreamResult(response.getWriter());
>  Transformer transformer = stf.newTransformer();
>  SAXSource transformSource = new SAXSource(filter, input);
>  transformer.transform(transformSource, result);

Perhaps you can simply add:

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

It is a performance hit, but probably not more than replaceAll

best,
-Rob


> At the point where the DEBUG output is, the serialized tree is as I've
> described it; the extra newlines appear in the output also as  
> described.
>
> In the meantime I have kludged up a workaround when I serialise the
> tree:
>
>  if (tagName.equals("pre")) {
>    d = d.replaceAll("<br[^>]*>","\n");
>  }
>
> This works but it offends my sensibilities!
>
> Thanks,
>
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