Re: [xsl] White space

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

At 2004-01-14 15:05 +0000, Mark Williams wrote:
> The xsl
> file below will not do it.

The XSL file below does not describe a result template rule.

> If change the first line to:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
> <fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format";>
>
> It renders to PDF exactly as I would expect it to.

Right ... because that is the document element of an XSL-FO instance.

> I would have though the
> fo:block would have rendered white space identically in both cases as it is
> a fo property and not an XSL.  Can you please tell me what it is I need to
> do to the file below to make it render white space correctly at all times.

Did you not think we were already trying to do so?

> - <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
> version="1.0" xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format";>
> - <fo:root>
> - <fo:layout-master-set>
> ...

The above does nothing for XSLT except be considered an empty stylesheet.

Perhaps you wanted:

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
  version="1.0" xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format";>
 <xsl:template match="/">
   <fo:root>
   ...
 </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Otherwise, you have an empty set of template rules engaging only the 
built-in template rules.  The <fo:root> elements is bug a top-level 
foreign-namespace construct.

I hope this helps.

........................ Ken

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