RE: [xsl] XSL 2.0 - value-of - xml:space="preserve"

[Robert Koberg <rob@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ahh..! Thank you, I get it now.


On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 19:20 +0800, Michael Kay wrote:
> > Apologies for being dense and dragging this on, but I seem to 
> > have a fundamental misunderstanding. Can you or someone else 
> > explain where the whitespace is with regard to the 
> > xsl:value-of in something like:
> > 
> > <script xml:space="preserve"/>
> >   <xsl:variable name="my-var">
> >     <xsl:choose>
> >       <xsl:when test="true()">1</xsl:when>
> >       <xsl:otherwise>2</xsl:otherwise>
> >     </xsl:choose>
> >   </xsl:variable>
> >   var myvar=<xsl:value-of select="$my-var" separator=""/>; </script>
> 
> I have marked potential significant whitespace with an X:
> 
> <script xml:space="preserve"/>X
> XX<xsl:variable name="my-var">X
> XXXX<xsl:choose>
>       <xsl:when test="true()">1</xsl:when>
>       <xsl:otherwise>2</xsl:otherwise>
>     </xsl:choose>X
> XX</xsl:variable>X
> XXvarXmyvar=<xsl:value-of select="$my-var" separator=""/>;X</script>
> > 
> > To my eyes, there is no whitespace around the xsl:value-of 
> > and the application is *not* taking me at my word.
> 
> I expect the whitespace you are unhappy with is the whitespace that is part
> of the variable value $my-var, generated before and after the xsl:choose
> instruction.
> 
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/