Subject: RE: [xsl] Effects of white space between xml elements From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:15:38 -0000 |
> Does white space between elements of an xml document effect > the output of a transformation of that document? In general yes. > If tags are nested properly, shouldn't white > space and new lines in between elements be irrelevant? No. Consider: <p>He was <i>nearly<i> <i>twelve</i>.</p> Note however that many products give you the option to get rid of inter-element whitespace when processing the kind of XML where you don't want it. You can control this from the stylesheet using xsl:strip-space. MSXML, notoriously, gets rid of it by default, causing data such as the example above to be rendered incorrectly. (On page 1005 of my XSLT 2.0 book is a screen shot showing how the XML 1.0 Recommendation displays incorrectly in Internet Explorer as a direct result of this). Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/
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