Subject: Re: document.write & copy-of From: Jeni Tennison <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 10:04:28 +0100 |
David Carlisle wrote in response to Mike Brown: >> 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. It's a cool shorthand, particularly because otherwise all the closing xsl:text tags break up the flow (as well as being wordy), but if you get too used to it you find yourself doing things like: <xsl:text /> <xsl:value-of select="name()" /> in order to put a whitespace before the name of the attribute, which of course doesn't work because the whitespace-only text node gets stripped :) It should be known as the Allouche method, as he was the first to post it, as far as I know ;) Cheers, Jeni Jeni Tennison http://www.jenitennison.com/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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