Re: [xsl] Significant whitespace in attribute values

[Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx>]

Michael M|ller-Hillebrand wrote:

> I maybe tasked with XSL-transforming some XML into a publishable version, but I shuddered as soon as I saw the input (coming from a custom-built Web CMS). It is something like the following with significant line feeds in attribute values:
>
> <items>
>  <item name="address" data="
> Company Name
> Street Address
> ZIP City
> Country
> " />
> </items>
>
> I have seen and dealt with line feeds in element content, but this time an alarm clock rang in my head. Am I right in my interpretation of the XML standard that attribute content must be normalized by a conforming XML parser and therefore it would never be possible to write an XSL to locate line feeds in attribute values?
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#AVNormalize

You would need a character reference e.g. &#10; to denote a line break 
in an attribute value. A literal white space character would be 
normalized to a space.


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