Subject: RE: [xsl] xml:preserve space makes xsl:attribute fail in IE6 From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 10:10:07 -0000 |
> For my xsl stylesheet, using > > <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" > version="1.0" xml:space="preserve"> in IE6, I had a problem. > > I found that when using the xsl:attribute construct like this, no > attributes were added to my anchor tag (by checking the HTML source) > > <a> > <xsl:attribute name="href"> > <xsl:value-of select="@start"/> > </xsl:attribute> > <xsl:value-of select="title"/> > </a> > Because you have said that whitespace is significant, the spaces between the <a> and the <xsl:attribute> are treated as a text node to be added as a child of the <a> element in the result tree. It's an error to try to add an attribute to an element after adding a text node. Implementations are allowed to either report the error, or ignore the offending attribute node. It seems MSXML is doing the latter. Using xml:space="preserve" in a stylesheet is not something I recommend, unless the relevant section of the stylesheet is pure data that you want to copy to the result tree. Michael Kay Software AG home: Michael.H.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx work: Michael.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > I used the space="preserve" to keep my HTML tidy and > readable. Finally > after trying a number of otherwise working examples, I removed > space="preserve" from the stylesheet tag and presto, the > attribute was > added as expected. > > I am transforming the XML source in javascript, setting up an > XML object > with MSXML2.DOMDocument ... > > Questions : is there a known problem with preserve space on IE6 ? > > Would this occur if I were to transform the XML server side (is it a > javascript problem) ? > > Is there any other way to keep the HTML output formatting as > indented in > the stylesheet ? > > Thanks for any feedback. > Regards, > Neil Smith. > > > > > > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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