Re: document.write & copy-of

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

> But what is the purpose of empty <xsl:text /> instructions?

It's the same as putting the characters inside a non empty xsl:text,
but saves a few keystrokes. Note the end result is the same,
the white space used to indent the stylesheet is in nodes that only have
white space so is stripped.


     <xsl:value-of select="name()" />
     <xsl:text />="<xsl:value-of

is effectively same as

     <xsl:value-of select="name()" />
     <xsl:text>="<xsl:text><xsl:value-of

but both of those are not the same as

     <xsl:value-of select="name()" />
     ="<xsl:value-of

which puts a newline and some spaces before the = in the output tree. 

David (answering for Jeni, for no particular reason)


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