Re: [xsl] strip-spaces

[Steven Ericsson-Zenith <steven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All plausible, and I thank you for pointing them out.

In fact, by a process of elimination, my problem appears to be that IE  
does not render the div in the span like other browsers - or rather  
that it does so inconsistently (because this same code works correctly  
in some instances in IE, generated from the same template). So I'm  
mystified.

Anyhow my problem does not appear to be an XSL issue. I'll come back  
the question of the extra tabs later if I have time.

Thanks.

With respect,
Steven


On Feb 4, 2008, at 12:00 PM, Michael Kay wrote:

> > It is, in fact, the document content that is not being
> > stripped, as I look at this more closely.
>
> Some of the possible reasons that come to mind for whitespace not  
> being
> stripped from the source document are:
>
> (a) the source document says xml:space="preserve"
>
> (b) the characters that look like whitespace are not in fact one of  
> the
> characters space, tab, nl, or cr; perhaps they are non-breaking spaces
>
> (c) the offending whitespace characters do not consistute a whole  
> text node
> (they coexist with non-whitespace characters)
>
> (d) the whitespace forms the content of an element that has been  
> validated
> to have a simple type.
>
> All these conjectures may be wrong, but you haven't given enough  
> information
> to discount any of them.
>
> It's also possible that the offending whitespace in your result  
> document
> doesn't originate from the source document at all, it could be  
> generated by
> parts of the stylesheet that we haven't seen.
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/