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Subject: Re: [xsl] Outputting White Space Only Nodes from Variables
From: "Liam R. E. Quin liam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 05:07:21 -0000
On Mon, 2021-02-22 at 02:14 +0000, Don Smith
dsmith_lockesmith@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> 1. Use different instructions for the output of the variable: value-
> of, copy-of, and sequence2. Created the variables as both strings and
> elements and even RTFs3. Tried a character map4. Tried an alternative
> approach like using strings "#SPACE, #TAB, #NL, etc. I know that
> would work but seems like it should be unnecessary?
> In every case the white space only variable content gets stripped
> out. How can such content be output?

I tried,
<xsl:variable name="generatedTextAfter" as="xs:string?" select=" ' '
"/>
and got output.


The relevant text in the spec is this:
https://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-30/#stylesheet-stripping

Liam

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