Re: Whitespace problem in IE5

Hello .

I'm transforming XML to HTML via XSL using IE5 too .
I put there Dave's solution with <xsl:script>, but it still strips the
whitespace.
Could You please look on my XML/XSL test files  ?
What wrong here ?

XML :

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<?xml:stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="spaces1.xsl" xml:space="preserve"?>
<Screen >
<Spaces xml:space="preserve">                    </Spaces>
<Field >This text should be shown with offset 20</Field>
</Screen>


XSL :

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl";>
<xsl:template match="/">
<HTML xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl";>
 <BODY xml:space="preserve"  >
 <xsl:apply-templates select="Screen"/>
 </BODY>
</HTML>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:script><![CDATA[
  function getText(e) {
    return (e.text);
}
]]></xsl:script>

<xsl:template match="Screen">
 <xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="Field">
  <xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="text()"><xsl:value-of /></xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="Spaces">
    <xsl:eval > getText(this) </xsl:eval>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>


Thanks ,
Orit .



----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Dieno <daved@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 1999 7:14 PM
Subject: RE: Whitespace problem in IE5


> FYI:
>
> I managed to work around the problem in IE5 with some help from MSDN (see
> Controlling Whitespace :
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/xslguide/xsl-whitespace.asp ).
>
> If you want to preserve the whitespace in your source document you have to
> specify the following attribute for those source document elements with
> whitespace, for example:
>
> <sourceline xml:space="preserve">
>
> This passes the whitespace through to the stylesheet.
>
> However, it seems that in IE5 the <xsl:value-of> element strips the
leading
> whitespace.   When I looked at the text value of the <sourceline> node
using
> Jscript and the DOM I found a workaround.
>
> <xsl:template match="sourceline">
>     <xsl:eval> getText(this) </xsl:eval>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:script><![CDATA[
>   function getText(e) {
>     return (e.text);
> }
>
> Not very elegant, but it works :)
>
> Cheers,
> Dave
>
>
> > I haven't tried this, but I seem to remember its coming up before. If I
> > recall, the solution is to use an <xsl:text> element to force the
spaces.
> > Something like:
> >
> > <PRE><xsl:text>     </xsl:text>Indented text</PRE>
> >
> > Worst case would be to use entity references for non-breaking spaces.
> >
> > Hope that helps,
> > John
> >
> > At 09:12 PM 05/19/1999 -0700, Dave Dieno wrote:
> > >Yes, the HTML is placed in a <PRE> section... sorry, I should have
> > included
> > >the XSL template:
> > >
> > ><xsl:template match="sourceline">
> > > <PRE STYLE="font-family:monospace">
> > >      <xsl:value-of />
> > >  </PRE>
> > ></xsl:template>
> > >
> > >I've also considered (but not tried) using the DTD approach I.E.
> > <!ATTLIST
> > >sourceline xml:space="preserve"> however I'm trying not to use a DTD
for
> > >this project :)
> > >Dave
> > >
> > > Steve Dahl wrote:
> > >
> > >> When you generate the HTML, do you put these text lines inside a
<PRE>
> > >> section?
> > >>
> > >> XML's specifications control how XML is treated, but not how HTML is
> > >> treated--HTML strips preceding and following whitespace unless the
text
> > is
> > >> in
> > >> a <PRE>, and does not pay attention to xml:space.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Dave Dieno wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > I'm transforming XML to HTML via XSL using IE5.
> > >> >
> > >> > I've got an XML element for which I would like to preserve the
> > >> whitespace
> > >> > upon output to HTML.
> > >> >
> > >> > For example, I'd like the following XML fragment:
> > >> >
> > >> > <codelisting>
> > >> > <sourceline>
> > >> >     if ( x  ==    "testcase") {
> > >> > </sourceline>
> > >> > <sourceline>
> > >> >         o.method(x);
> > >> > </sourceline>
> > >> > <sourceline>
> > >> >     }
> > >> > </sourceline>
> > >> > </codelisting>
> > >> >
> > >> > Viewed in the browser as:
> > >> >
> > >> >     if ( x  ==    "testcase") {
> > >> >         o.method(x);
> > >> >     }
> > >> >
> > >> > My output font is monospaced, and I've tried using both the
> > stylesheet
> > >> > attribute:
> > >> >
> > >> > <xsl:stylesheet default-space="preserve"> and the element
attribute:
> > >> >
> > >> > <sourceline xml:space="preserve">.
> > >> >
> > >> > What I get is:
> > >> >
> > >> > if ( x  ==    "testcase") {
> > >> > o.method(x);
> > >> > }
> > >> >
> > >> > While the whitespace within a line is preserved, all of the leading
> > >> > whitespace characters (spaces and tabs) are removed :(
> > >> >
> > >> > Any ideas?
> > >> >
> > >> > Thanks,
> > >> > Dave Dieno
> > >> > Aeroinfo Systems Inc.
> > >> > http://www.aeroinfo.com
> > >> >
> > >> >  XSL-List info and archive:
http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> - Steve Dahl
> > >> sdahl@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > ==========================================================
> > John E. Simpson            | The secret of eternal youth
> > simpson@xxxxxxxxxxx        | is arrested development.
> > http://www.flixml.org      |  -- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
> >
> >
> >  XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
>
>
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