Subject: Re: [xsl] Question on space normalization in serialization From: "David Carlisle d.p.carlisle@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 21:37:11 -0000 |
On 1 September 2015 at 22:16, David Sewell dsewell@xxxxxxxxxxxx <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am probably forgetting something basic in the XSLT specs about how string > variables are created and evaluated, but I was experimenting with including > CSS rules within an XSLT stylesheet and then writing them at run time along > with the output of my transformation via xsl:result-document. I discovered > that if I put the CSS into a string variable using the @select attribute, > linefeeds are not preserved in the output; but if I put the CSS text into a > sequence constructor, the linefeeds are preserved in the output. What's the > underlying reason, assuming this isn't implementation-dependent? (I'm > testing with Saxon; XSLT 2 and 3 produce identical results.) > > <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" > xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" > exclude-result-prefixes="xs" > version="2.0"> > <xsl:variable name="CSS1" as="xs:string" select="' > p { color:pink; } > a { font-family: fantasy} > '"/> > <xsl:variable name="CSS2" as="xs:string"> > p { color:pink; } > a { font-family: fantasy} > </xsl:variable> > <xsl:template name="main"> > <xsl:result-document href="test1.css" method="text"> > <xsl:value-of select="$CSS1"/> > </xsl:result-document> > <xsl:result-document href="test2.css" method="text"> > <xsl:value-of select="$CSS2"/> > </xsl:result-document> > </xsl:template> > </xsl:stylesheet> > > -- > David Sewell, Editorial and Technical Manager > ROTUNDA, The University of Virginia Press > PO Box 400318, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4314 USA > Email: dsewell@xxxxxxxxxxxx Tel: +1 434 924 9973 > Web: http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/
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