RE: No carriage return/ line feed

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

At 99/02/03 08:14 -0500, Ding, Suli (GEIS) wrote:
>I am using XSL to convert an XML document into some proprietary format
>document using MSXSL. An carriage return and line feed (^M character) are
>always added for each
>	<xsl:value-of select="element/@name"/>
>
>Is there a way I can instruct MSXSL not to insert these characters?

MSXSL doesn't yet treat whitespace as specified in the Working Draft.

By having introduced whitespace into the stylesheet, MSXSL is copying this
(undesireably) into the result tree.

The Working Draft says that the following should add no stylesheet
whitespace to the result tree:

   <xsl:when test="element/@name">
     <xsl:value-of select="element/@name"/>
   </xsl:when>

For MSXSL, I've done the following to suppress the trailing whitespace:

   <xsl:when test="element/@name">
     <xsl:value-of select="element/@name"/></xsl:when>
  
... or the following to remove all whitespace but not have enormously long
lines:

   <xsl:when test="element/@name"
    ><xsl:value-of select="element/@name"
   /></xsl:when>

Note how whitespace *inside* tags is never significant and the above has no
whitespace *between* the tags.

I hope this helps.

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


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