Re: [xsl] White space treatment issue

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2011-01-17 16:20 -0700, Karl Stubsjoen wrote:
> I can't figure out where/when white space is getting introduced, and
> if it is introduced in the stylesheet or the xml document or I guess
> maybe both.
> I am using MvpXslTransform in a C# .NET application.
> When I run the transformation straight with Saxon there is no issue.

I think Saxon is the gold-standard implementation, so if it works 
there your transformation is probably correctly written.  Most likely 
a variant in the result from another engine is a fault with that engine.

> When I run the same thing with MvpXslTransform, I get extra spaces in
> the output.  There is linefeed-treatment set to true in the fo
> document, but somehow extra lines are injected.

linefeed-treatment is interpreted solely by the XSL-FO engine, and 
not recognized by the XSLT engine, so that is not what is impacting 
your transformation.

> Can you think of anything obvious that I can check.  I've walked
> through the code and can't find the problem.  Perhaps I am not
> honoring character encoding?

Not sure how you could be messing up in that area.  As you say, it 
works fine in Saxon.  A putative XML document isn't XML if the 
characters violate the character encoding rules, and a conformant XML 
processor should reject such.

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . . . . Ken


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