Re: Saxon html includes unwanted white space in anchor tag

Subject: Re: Saxon html includes unwanted white space in anchor tag
From: Steve Tinney <stinney@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 10:58:14 -0500
You can add indent="no" to xsl:output.

Finer-grained control over indenting would be useful in XSL, even if not
strictly necessary.  Maybe an attribute on xsl:output which allowed
control on a per-output-tag basis.

 Steve

Mike Alsup wrote:
> 
> I'm having trouble when trying to use an html image tag inside an anchor tag
> using the following stylesheet:
> 
> ----------------------------
> <xsl:stylesheet
>     xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; version="1.0"
>     xmlns:saxon="http://icl.com/saxon";
>     extension-element-prefixes="saxon">
> 
> <xsl:output method="html"/>
> <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
> 
> <xsl:template match="/">
>     <html><body>
> 
>     <a href="#"><img border="0" src="image.jpg"/></a>
> 
>     test text
>     </body></html>
> </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> ----------------------------
> 
> The saxon v5.1 processor ( when run via the StyleSheet class on the command
> line ) generates the following HTML:
> 
> ----------------------------
> <html>
>     <body>
>         <a href="#">
>             <img src="image.jpg" border="0">
>         </a>
> 
>     test text
>     </body>
> </html>
> ----------------------------
> 
> The trouble here is that there is white space after the image tag but within
> the anchor tag and when rendered this appears as part of the hyperlink (ie,
> the link extends beyond the image).  The Lotusxsl processor (v0.19.1)
> produces the following HTML which works fine as there is no unwanted white
> space in the anchor:
> 
> ----------------------------
> <html>
> <body>
> <a href="#"><img src="image.jpg" border="0"></a>
> 
>     test text
>     </body>
> </html>
> ----------------------------
> 
> Can anyone give me some guidance as to how to make this work right using the
> Saxon processor?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Michael
> 
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