Re: [xsl] Saxon vs. Xalan - output not the same

[David N Bertoni/Cambridge/IBM <david_n_bertoni@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Hi all,
> I have this bit of XSL:
>
> <xsl:template match="tight">
> .BR <xsl:value-of select="." /><xsl:text/>
> <xsl:choose>
> <xsl:when test="position() != last()">, </xsl:when>
> <xsl:when test="position() = last()">. </xsl:when>
> </xsl:choose>
> </xsl:template>
>
> that matches this bit of XML:
> <tight><link>mget</link></tight>
> <tight><link>medit</link></tight>
>
> Using Xalan, I get output like this:
>
> mget, medit.
>
> Using Saxon, I get output like this:
>
> mget,
>
> medit,
>
> I want the the output from Saxon to look like Xalan's output . Any ideas
>  what I can do to fix this?

Without a complete example, it's we have to guess what your inputs look
like, but I reconstructed the following:

---------------------------------

   <?xml version="1.0"?>
   <doc>
   <tight><link>mget</link></tight>
   <tight><link>medit</link></tight>
   </doc>

---------------------------------

   <?xml version="1.0"?>
   <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
   version="1.0">

   <xsl:template match="doc">
     <out>
       <xsl:apply-templates/>
     </out>
   </xsl:template>

   <xsl:template match="tight">
   .BR <xsl:value-of select="." /><xsl:text/>
   <xsl:choose>
   <xsl:when test="position() != last()">, </xsl:when>
   <xsl:when test="position() = last()">. </xsl:when>
   </xsl:choose>
   </xsl:template>

   </xsl:stylesheet>

---------------------------------

Using Xalan-C++, I get the following output:

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   <out>

   .BR mget,

   .BR medit,
   </out>

The output from Saxon and MSXSL is pretty the same.

If I use the following input document:

   <?xml version="1.0"?>
   <doc><tight><link>mget</link></tight><tight><link>medit</link></tight></doc>

I get:

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   <out>
   .BR mget,
   .BR medit. </out>

If you're expecting the latter, you need to change your source document, or
use the xsl:strip-space instruction to strip whitespace from the
appropriate elements.

It's likely you've found a bug in Xalan, if it is producing what you say it
is.  What version of Xalan are you using?

Dave


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