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

Subject: RE: [xsl] Result still indented despite indent="no"
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 07:19:22 -0500
At 2005-02-21 02:59 -0800, Mukul Gandhi wrote:
But MSXSL strips whitespace only text nodes in absence
of strip-space and preserve-space instructions..

Oh, I'm glad you could find something to refute the evidence ... could you please show me in your experimentation how MSXSL does not strip white-space text nodes in the presence of an xsl:preserve-space instructions?


I posted last night that I was not able to get MSXSL to preserve white-space text nodes even when using xsl:preserve-space:

http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200502/msg01063.html

... so I would like to compare my results to your stated conclusion.

At 2005-02-21 00:21 -0800, Mukul Gandhi wrote:
This is a very reasonable implementation.
Whitespace-only text nodes are not of much use to a
application!

Please review my post cited above for a real-world example of why my customers and I need white-space-only text nodes and why I am having problems with my customers' XML data in a Microsoft IE environment.


At 2005-02-21 02:59 -0800, Mukul Gandhi wrote:
As Mr. Ken Holman originally pointed, this is a
non-conformance.. I also now feel so!

Indeed ... passing off the "problem" to the XML Processor in the XSLT processor does not exonerate the "XSLT Transformation Environment" from being non-conformant. I have a publishing problem in that I've been asked by my customers to present their data in a distributed IE browser environment, and in one case where up to 50,000 families in one State in the US are going to be browsing XML results, how can I give the presentation that I need for the mixed content?


Dimitre said,  there is a "preserveWhiteSpace"
property of IXMLDOMDocument.. But this I feel, is at
an API level..., which I feel does not ensure
conformance on this issue!

I agree, which prompted my post asking if anyone knew how to trigger this in the browser environment.


I hope this discussion has helped people understand the issue and answer the original question posted.

.......................... Ken

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