RE: [xsl] XSLT transform to HTML - different output using XMLSpy vs VB6

["Joe Fawcett" <joefawcett@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Craig

What processor are you using with VB that supports XSLT version 2.0?
In my limited experience whether you get &-n-b-s-p-; or an actual 
non-breakung space is irrelevant.
Can you show a browser that treats these two characters differently?
You can also use css styling to force cell borders to display in empty 
cells, off the top of my head I think the setting is empty-cells. I also 
remeber doing something with border-collapse in IE.

Joe


> From: "Craig Whisenhunt" <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: [xsl] XSLT transform to HTML - different output using XMLSpy vs 
> VB6
> Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 17:53:05 -0500
>
> I developed a stylesheet using XMLSpy and am now trying to use the XSLT 
> file
> within VB6 to transform XML to HTML docs.
>
> Everything works beautifully in XMLSpy but the results of the tranformation
> using VB6 are curious (and not acceptable). I'm not sure where to start so
> here goes. There are a few issues:
>
> Here's the first part of my stylesheet:
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
> xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";
> xmlns:fn="http://www.w3.org/2004/07/xpath-functions";
> xmlns:xdt="http://www.w3.org/2004/07/xpath-datatypes";>
> <xsl:preserve-space elements="*"/>
> <xsl:output method="html" encoding="ISO-8859-1" use-character-maps="cm1"
> indent="yes"/>
> <xsl:output doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"; />
> <xsl:output doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" />
> <xsl:character-map name="cm1">
> <xsl:output-character character=" " string="&amp;nbsp;"/>
> </xsl:character-map>
>
> I don't fully understand all these declarations but borrowed them from
> another stylesheet example.
>
> The character map is there to force the &nbsp; to be written in the HTML.
> One of the main differences in how XMLSpy renders vs VB6 is the &nbsp;
>
> VB6 outputs a blank space while XMLSpy renders a &nbsp; I need the &nbsp;
> for formatting and to hold open empty table cells.
>
> Any advice on the declarations at the top of my stylesheet would be
> appreciated. Also any knowledge of VB6 in this regard would be helpful.
>
> I'd be happy to post some of the templates but I don't think that is the
> problem since XMLSpy renders wonderfullly.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> -Craig