Re: [xsl] Whitespace question

["Ragulf Pickaxe" <jawxml@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> In order to distinguish these two cases, you *must* preserve spaces.  Once
> the space is stripped, they are identical, and no amount of XSLT wrangling
> will help.
>
> Your options are (1) xml:space="preserve" in the original XML, (2)
> xsl:preserve-space in the XSLT, or (3) some switch to MSXML itself before
> beginning the transformation.

I will try to look a litle into Michael Kay's solution, then.

The problem, though, is that I only want ' ' preserved, not linefeed and all 
that kind of things - these are tagged in the xml document:

<Doc>
<P>This is the document with a line feed<Newline/>so this will be on a
new line, but not<NBSP/>
this, which will be on the same line<Bold> Bold text</Bold> <Italic>Italic 
text, which will be place besides "Bold text" because of the 'whitespace 
problem'</Italic></P>
</Doc>

I search for NBSP, Newline, Bold, Italic and such and use the appropriate 
action to get the right output.

Example:

<xsl:template match="Bold">
     <B><xsl:apply-templates /></B>
</xsl:template>

Therefore, preserving whitespace, like what was suggested in Michael Kay's 
responce, will give other problems as well.

If I do preserve whitespace, how do I ensure that only spaces between tags 
are carried over to the output document?

- I see now that I should perhaps have been more informative in my first 
mail, but I tried to keep it short.

Ragulf Pickaxe

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