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

[Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>]

> This is a "feature" of MSXSL which is documented in the MSXML SDK (and
> the archives of this list).
> 
> MSXSL reads its input from an MSXML DOM and the XML parser, by default,
> throws away white space nodes while building the DOM. If you are calling
> the parser from script you can stop this by setting the
> preserveWhiteSpace property.
> 
> If you don't set this property the spaces are gone before XSLT starts up
> so there's nothing that strip-space can do to have any effect.

This is not exactly so -- in case xml:space="preserve" is specified on an element,
MSXML does not throw away white space nodes that are descendants of this element,
even if the preserveWhiteSpace property is not set.

Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev.

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