Re: [xsl] Controlling Whitespace in IE

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Spencer Tickner wrote:
> I'm having an issue with ie's translation of my xml document. With
> this document:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="test.xsl"?>
> <root>
>     <sentencetext>blah <def>blah blah</def> blah blah <def>foo</def>
> <def>bar</def>.</sentencetext>
> </root>
> 
> the foo and the bar are stuck together. I am using this stylesheet to
> try and force them apart:
> 
> <?xml version='1.0'?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
> <xsl:output media-type="html"/>
> 
> <xsl:variable name="cr"><xsl:text>
> </xsl:text></xsl:variable>
> 
> <xsl:template match="/">
>     <html>
>     <body>
>     <xsl:apply-templates/>
>     </body>
>     </html>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="sentencetext">
>     <p><xsl:apply-templates/></p><xsl:value-of select="$cr"/>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="def">
> <a class="definition" href="something"><em><xsl:apply-templates/></em></a>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="text()">
> <xsl:choose>
> <xsl:when test="normalize-space(.) = ''"><xsl:text> </xsl:text></xsl:when>
> <xsl:otherwise><xsl:value-of select="."/></xsl:otherwise>
> </xsl:choose>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> IE does not seem to be translating the normalize-space funtion correctly.
> 
> For instance, when I put a 1 before the <xsl:text> </xsl:text> in
> firefox I get 1's exactly where I would expect them and foo and bar
> are seperated by a space. However in IE, no 1's appear. Does anybody
> know of a hack or work around for this.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Spencer
> Victoria BC, Canada

I would try to use
<xsl:text xml:space="preserve"> </xsl:text>
That may does the trick.

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