Subject: Re: [xsl] Unanticipated Results from text() From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 22:06:31 GMT |
> I rely heavily on leading blanks of to original text. yes but they are not affected by white space stripping, as they are in the same text node as non-white space. mxsml's stripping, like xslt's only affects text nodes that are all-white. msxml doesn't actually remove the text nodes, it leaves a secret marker recording that a text node was there (but not its value), and when serialising the node, it (usually) inserts a space at that point. This means that of you xsl:copy-of a branch of the input tree, very often space appears to be preserved in the result as these hidden markers get copied, but if you apply-templates and acually costruct a new tree rather than copying the original, all record of the origial space is lost. an MS developer writes about this in this old thread http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200307/msg00143.html David
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