RE: [xsl] Control over html output

["Michael Kay" <mhkay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > In this case the linebreak causes undesirable whitespace to appear
> > in the resulting document in certain browsers. At the moment I'm
> > having to rely on the rather crude solution of setting the html
> > output indent to "no" to avoid this, but this seems a rather
> > inelegant solution...
>
> That's the most elegant solution you'll find :)  By default,
> processors indent HTML output, which means they can add whitespace to
> make it easier to read.  The indent attribute on xsl:output is
> specifically designed to control that.

Yes, but the rules also say that when you use indent="yes", the processor
must only add extra whitespace in places where it won't show in the browser.
So if it makes a difference to what you see on the browser screen, something
is wrong.

Mike Kay


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