[xsl] xml:output indent="yes" wins over xsl:preserve-space/xsl:strip-space?

[David Sewell <dsewell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have an XSLT 2.0 script that I'm using to generate output with Saxon
8B, and I want confirmation that the behavior I'm getting is the
expected one.  It's not the behavior I want, but if it follows the
specs then I can't complain.

My script simply extracts all tables in an XML document and writes them
to a result document. In the source document, rows and cells are not
indented; I want them to be indented in the result document. However,
because cells can contain mixed content, I want space to be preserved
inside them.

This does not work:

   <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
   <xsl:preserve-space elements="cell"/>

because it leads to output such as

   <cell>
      <i>some text</i>
   </cell>

The same output occurs if I use <xsl:strip-space> in place of
xsl:preserve-space. It seems, then, that xsl:output overrides
xsl:strip-space or xsl:preserve-space.

I can produce the output I want by adding "xml:space='preserve'"
as an attribute on all <cell> elements in the source. Is modifying the
source the only option I have?

DS

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