RE: [xsl] preserve-space and strip-space?

> Maybe I am wrong on what strip-space and preserve-space are
> supposed to do.
> Using the following XML document, I pad each element's values
> with spaces.
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
> <links>
>  <link>     testing pre-stripping</link>
>  <link>testing post-stripping         </link>
>  <link>         testing any stripping      </link>
> </links>
>

Yes, you are quite wrong. xsl:strip-space and xsl:preserve-space only affect
text nodes that consist entirely of white space.

If you want to remove leading and trailing spaces, consider the
normalize-space() function.

Mike Kay


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