Re: [xsl] Result still indented despite indent="no"

[Mukul Gandhi <mukul_gandhi@xxxxxxxxx>]

I just saw the relevant section in XSLT 2.0 draft
(http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/) - section "4.4
Stripping Whitespace from a Source Tree". It seems
more clear than the XSLT 1.0 spec. But it still
does'nt explicitly say "what should happen when both
strip-space and preserve-space are not present".

Now that XSLT 2.0 draft is in the advanced stage,
probably the below clarification I am asking for,
should be clearly stated in the spec(in section 4.4).

>But in that case, the spec should be a bit more
>clear.. It should clearly say, what should happen,
>when both strip-space and preserve-space are not
>present. Whether default behaviour should be to
>preserve white spaces or strip white spaces.

Hope, Mr. Kay will take care.

Regards,
Mukul

> --- David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Mukul,
> > 
> > as Michael says you don't need the errata in this
> > case, section 3.4 is
> > not at all ambiguous here it says:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > Initially, the set of whitespace-preserving
> > element names contains all
> > > element names.
> > 
> > so unless you specify strip-space in your
> stylesheet
> > all white space in
> > the source is preserved.
> > 
> > This behaviour is implemented in all xslt engines
> > that I have seen
> > (including msxsl) so I don't think that there is
> any
> > reason to doubt
> > that this is clear.
> > 
> > The difference in msxml is not in the
> implementation
> > of xsl strip-space
> > it is in the parser producing the input tree
> before
> > xslt starts. msxml
> > removes white space (irrespective of
> xsl:strip-space
> > or xsl:preseve
> > space, the xsl instructions can only affect the
> > input tree as seen by
> > xsl and in the case of msxml the input tree has
> > essentially gone through
> > a pre-transformation that has removed space. If
> you
> > set the
> > preservewhitepace property so that the parser does
> > not do that, you'll
> > see that msxml implements xsl space stripping in a
> > conformant way.
> > 
> > David




		
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